_ 16 _ Simão Velho, Jemes Teixeira, Francisco de Mello – I name all these because they all received arrow wounds. The cistern was about a berço shot from the shore, and the Captain-inChief had someone who could show him the way. Our men began to disembark about an hour before dawn and they assembled in their companies some way outside the city, and there were many straw houses of poor people, which Dinis Fernandes de Mello set on fire. /861/ The people cried out, and fled towards the city, and there was a great turmoil and the Moors from the cistern ran towards it. Afonso Lopes went straight to the cistern where he found there were still many Moors, mostly archers, whom he attacked, and they retreated into the streets of the city. Dinis Fernandes de Mello advanced with his seamen, who were carrying crowbars and picks and spades, and they went to the gates of the cistern, of which there were two, and broke them down. Then they broke the walls and the mouths of the cistern, making large holes in many places, and breaking the roof of the cistern, which fell into it, and water began to pour out of the holes and run along the streets and many people ran to collect it. Dinis Fernades and his men brought out many of the bodies of Moors who had burned inside their houses and
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