_ 130 _ our force; besides this, the tide was beginning to rise so that the waters covered the beach in front of the city. When the other captains saw that the governor and Dom Garcia were going to embark, they withdrew in a great hurry: the common soldiers were almost left behind, and if the Arabs had come out of the city at this point our men would have been in great danger. Manuel de Lacerda saw this and he didn't wish to embark he stayed at the shore until they had all embarked, and he even gave orders for all the pieces from the broken ladders to be brought to the barges, so that they might not bear witness to our state of disarray. During this time Gaspar Cao came to the artillery opening, after all the others had already climbed down; he did this after the death of Garcia de Sousa, and he had been so busy fighting that he had not noticed the others leaving, When he was alone he went to the battlements, where there weren't any ropes anymore, Manuel de Lacerda, Antonio Ferreira Fogaca and others who were together, shouted at him to join them, but he couldn't hear them because the Arabs were very close to him and there was a great deal of noise, both inside and outside the city. Finding no ropes he made the sign of the cross and jumped down he broke a leg, and since he was already wounded, he
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