_ 220 _ confusion, as all the wounded had been lifted on deck to give them succour. The smoke was so dense that it was impossible to put out the fire, but after great labours it was eventually extinguished. In this disaster the bandages of almost all the wounded were burnt, and it was necessary to dress their wounds over again. But no one allowed this unhappy episode to mar the great joy that all felt from that victory. The next day Antonio Correa went on land with those who were able to join him to launch the small galley I spoke of into the sea. That day they brought it down to the quayside after great labour, the fortification built by the enemy being in the way and not yet demolished. The following day it was launched, but again it cost great effort, because our men were few and those of Rais Sharaf did not give them any help. Antonio Correa worked like any other man, though wounded in the right arm which gave him much pain. But he suffered this in order to win the prize of this vessel for the king. After it was launched, he named it Mocrina, after King Mocrim, and he gave its captaincy to one Gaspar Correa. It was five days after the battle when he was informed by a local Moor, and also by one belonging to Rais Sharaf, that King Mocrim was dead, and that on the following evening he was to be buried at Katifa. Rais Sharaf request-
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