_ 82 _ Despite this they boarded the enemy ships, The first men from Payo de Sousa’s ship to do so were Payo de Sousa himself, Ambrosio Pessanha, Fernao Peres de Andrade, and others, all of whom were wounded, but also killed many of the enemy. Those who remained alive jumped into the sea to save themselves and left the two galleys in our hands. Two others were also captured by us, whilst a further two escaped up the river. During this combat Maymame was killed; he was the Muslim saint from Calicut who had taken a message to the Sultan, asking him to send the Roumeliotes to India. While he was asking Muhammad to grant our enemy victory, a shell hit the pinnace where he was praying and killed him. There was also another very strange occurrence the ships were all very close to each other, and when one of ours fired at one of the enemy vessels to sink it, the missile flew so high that it hit its topsail, tearing it to pieces along with the men who were on it. The people on the other topsails, thinking that the Portuguese would try the same thing again climbed down. This was very good for us, because they were harming us a great deal from this position. At this point the sea was covered with enemy men trying to escape by swimming
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