_ 55 _ surrendered or should set off for India to make safe the two ships that had to be pumped to stay afloat. It was decided that they should wait until the end of October, because it was possible that some Portuguese vessels might arrive. Meanwhile they blockaded the island, and with the ship’s boats they seized many people and provisions. They were short of water and the Captain-in-Chief sent Dom Antonio with the brigantine and boats to the island of Larak, where they took on water and returned. They found no one defending it. So, they transferred the water into the ships and went back to the island for more water, and when they arrived, they found many soldiers on the island, and they could not fight them, so they returned without water. When the Captain-in-Chief heard this, he made preparations and set off in the brigantine, with the boats, and Martim Coelho in his vessel, and when they got there, they attacked the Moors who at once fled. Our men killed camels and cows and goats, and created carnage, they cleaned the wells that the Moors had dirtied, and took on water and many provisions, with which /882/ the Captainin-Chief returned to the ships, leaving Martim Coelho’s vessel to guard the wells. Then he sent Diogo de Mello to take on water and to relieve Martim Coelho.
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