_ 584 _ sides so that the Marshal was killed together with 68 others; and if Afonso de Albuquerque had not come to their aid the Christians would all have been killed. Afonso was wounded when they turned and fled back to the ships. The city, however, is totally destroyed and burnt to the ground. Item: You must have heard that Pêro Navarro, now a count and always a ruffian, captured the city of Bejaia in Barbary last month. The King of Bejaia assembled 80,000 horsemen and 30,000 footsoldiers to attack the city, and when he had come within a distance of three leagues the Moors pitched camp in order to proceed with the attack. On the same night Pêro Navarro left with 500 horsemen and 6,000 footsoldiers and finding the pagans asleep attacked them and killed innumerable of them, and the King only just succeeded in escaping. My dear friend, nothing special is going on except that Gaspar Judeu came and it appears that he has brought pearls and precious stones to the value of 25,000 ducats belonging to him; his wife has died, and he has another son. The Viceroy’s possessions, which have arrived in the ships, are valued at 80,000 ducats, and he perished in such an ignominious manner.
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