_ 22 _ soldiers. They returned to the Captain-in-Chief, and when he heard about it, he prepared to go there in person. He took with him Antonio do Campo and Francisco de Tavora, and left Afonso Lopes, Manuel Telles on guard, and João da Nova with powers as Captain-in-Chief and he left them the four armed Moorish paraos with which he told them to keep a watch on the shore. He took four of the terradas with jars in which the Moors fetched water and set off for the island. He reached the port before dawn and disembarked with all his men and told Duarte de Sousa to go and put water on board, and the seamen carried it in small jars and emptied them into the large ones, which they loaded on to the paraos and the terradas too. While this was being done, the Captain-in-Chief with his men went to the town; the captain fled towards the hills, and the Captain-in-Chief ordered that the many provisions they found in the town should be collected up, and they did this all day. He learned from the Moors whom he captured there that people from the city were arriving there at night on planks, and he ordered fifty of them to be round up. When they reached Ormuz he had their right hands and noses and ears cut off and commanded that they should be thrown on the shore as an example to the city.
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