_ 561 _ way. The Marshal ordered Pero Afonso to take loaded berço that he had brought with him, and he brought it together with three bombardeiros and also seamen with chambers, magazines and a barrel of powder. The rest of his men, greedy for what they could plunder from the houses of the King, followed on behind the Marshal. The Governor, seeing the Marshal setting off with a great number of men behind, remained talking with his men saying, “Let us make ready, for this day will turn out as God wishes it and all those you see going off you will not see return. I cannot help him because the King has taken away my power in this place”. So, he gathered together the remaining men and left behind to guard the shore and the batels Dom Antonio de Noronha, his nephew, Duarte de Mello, and Rodrigo Rabello with two hundred men. He ordered them to have the batels ready and if wounded men arrived back, they were to be taken on board. The Governor took six hundred men and made his way along the shore, burning houses as he went as well as many naus that were beached and many paraos. They encountered no men to resist them. Then the Governor told all the men to go after the Marshal and to waste no time. And he lit fires all along the coast on the landward side but none on the seaward side. The Marshal took the direct route to the houses of the King,
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