_ 131 _ lost a great deal of blood, as a result of which he later died in the Camaran island. After he had jumped another followed him; this was an artilleryman from Garcia de Sousa's ship, who carried a crossbow under his arm and was unscathed. After they had all embarked Manuel de Lacerda went aboard, which happened after noon there he was at once summoned by the governor to a council meeting, in order to debate whether they should try to capture the stronghold at the mole which ran from the island of Cira to the city; this was where the enemy were firing at our fleet, which was very close to it, specially Manuel de Lacerda's ship. While the governor and the captains were discussing the best way to capture it, Manuel de Lacerda's ship's master, a man called Alvaro. Marreiro who was unaware of the council meeting, began to get angry at the way his ship was being fired at; he said that he wouldn't tolerate being fired at by a black man (he was referring to the Moorish enemy artilleryman). Assembling the ship's sailors, he jumped into the skiff with them, taking their lances and swords and rowed towards the stronghold. As this position was only manned by the one artilleryman; when he saw our men he ran away and
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