_ 42 _ force that they had no time to shoot, and all in a body they ran along a wide street which went through the middle of the town, and many of them rushed into a great mosque which had been partly destroyed in a previous battle. Our men followed the other Moors, who went past the mosque, until they had gone a good way beyond the town, and the Captain-in-Chief sent Dom Antonio to call them back. Because the town ran along the foot of the cliff, it was safe from the land side. Then the Captain-in-Chief sent Diogo de Mello and Francisco de Tavora to bring straw /875/ from some huts that were nearby, and it was stuffed into the broken walls of the mosque and then set alight, and it all caught fire and fell in, and over a hundred Moors died inside and many others were killed in the houses, and many taken captive. Then night fell, and the Captain-in-Chief divided the men into watches to keep guard on the two entrances into the town in case the Moors came back; but they were so frightened that they spent the night a long way off. When it was daybreak, for they never slept all night, the Captain-in-Chief told the Captains to send their seamen to load the boats with provisions, which was the best thing they could take. They did this until midday,
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