_ 554 _ In the company of the Marshal were all the captains of the naus, namely Dom Luiz Coutinho, Braz Teixeira, Bastião de Sousa, Rodgrio Rabello, (who came from Cannanor to join the expedition), Manuel Paçanha, Pero Afonso d’ Aguiar, Gomes Freire, Ruy Freire, Franciso de Sousa Mancyas, Jorge de Cunha, Francisco de Sa, Vasco da Silveira, Diogo Correa and other honourable noblemen who came with him as well as Manuel Teles, Antonio do Campo, Francisco Corvinel, Francisco Marequos, and Jorge Lopes Bixorda, who were captains of armourery. All these captains with their men numbered more than eight hundred, all fine men and well-armed. On the journey they coordinated their plans until finally they came to anchor in Calicut harbour. The sight of such a great armada spread terror on the mainland mainly because the Samorin not in residence and lay ill at a place five leagues from there, but the catual, the vedor da fazenda and the other ruling men in the city straight away summoned a large number of soldiers and in a very short time equipped them as best they could, erecting barricades along which they lined up much artillery. And they put a heavy guard on the cerame for all along the beach were the grass huts of fishermen, the city being inside. It was built among palm tress and groves,
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