_ 205 _ had received the water of holy baptism by the hand of the priests whom we immediately sent there, and it was hoped that all had received it. Tristão da Cunha ordered the head of this son of the Fartaki king, the chief captain who had been killed to be placed on a tower of the fortress, and when the Christians saw it, they were pleased. He gave orders for all the bodies of the Moors who died in the capture of the fortress to be collected, and they were burnt. Those who escaped and had fled, those from the place adjacent to the fortress and those who were unable to take refuge were killed by the Christians of the island, who went about the place favoured by the victory which Our Lord had given to our men, and they avenged themselves for the offences and tyrannies they had suffered at their hands. In this fortress D Afonso de Loronha is captain, a fidalgo of our house, who has already been sent by us for this purpose, together with men suitable for the guarding and defence of the fortress by our servants and other necessary men, much heavy and light artillery and what is appropriate to a place to which help comes from so far away. Sea-captain Afonso de Albuquerque is also there, a fidalgo of our house, a man able enough for such a post for his gallantry and experience of matters of the sea, with a fleet which we have ordered for this coast at the mouth of
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