_ 583 _ a great deal of water, returned to Mozambique for repair. This ship also brings important news of the Marshal. As you know, the Marshal left last year with the rank of captain together with 16 ships bound for India, with the intention of conquering the city of Aden, in which they did not succeed, and for this reason arrived late in India. He and Afonso de Albuquerque decided to attack the city of Calicut with 22 ships, 4 galleys and 2000 men, and the captains swore to one another that each would wait for the other. Afonso de Albuquerque was the first to arrive at the city and did not waste time before invading the city with his fighting men, and he captured it and began to plunder it. The Marshal saw what had happened and was annoyed; with his fighting men he invaded the city too, set it on fire in many places, and together with his men made an onslaught and attacked the King’s palace half a league from Calicut, forced the King to flee, broke open the gates and set it on fire. Meanwhile, it is said, about 20,000 pagans arrived and drove them back, killing many of the Christians and putting them to flight. The Christians arrived at a point where the road was narrow and they were unable to make use of their muskets, and the pagans threw objects from the barricades on both
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