_ 57 _ Moors, went round the outside of the town and attacked them in the rear so fiercely that they made them retreat to some large mosques, where they defended themselves stoutly until they were all killed, more than three hundred of them. The others went beyond the mosques and escaped. In the mosques and the town, they found good booty, clothing and arms and many horses, and provisions which the Captain-in-Chief ordered to be taken to the ships. They killed all the horses and rounded up many cows and goats and filled up with water. Because this was a great feat, the Moors being so many and our men so few, news of it was carried inland, and Shah Ismail himself praised the Portuguese highly and sent a message of friendship to the Captain-in-Chief for the good things that he /883/ heard about him; but by the time the messenger arrived the Captain-in-Chief had left for India. All the men of rank were in this affair with the Captain-in-Chief: Gaspar Machado, Diogo Guisado, Antonio de Sá, Bertolomeu Pereira, João Coelho, Antonio de Lis, Gonçalvo Queimado; and with Francisco de Tavora, Francisco de Mello, Jorge de Silveira, Duarte de Sousa, Afonso da Costa, Bastião de Miranda, Lisuarte Freire, Nicolao d’ Andrade, Antonio Fragoso, João Teixeira,
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