_ 414 _ As he was a devout Christian and a true friend of Our Lord, he suffered everything with the greatest fortitude, saying repeatedly that they could do whatever they wished to him, but he would never abandon the word of the true God for the doctrine of Mohammed which was a lie. When the others saw his courage, they also refused to become Muslims. The King of Cambay, angered at Diogo de Mezquita's stubbornness, ordered him and the others to be sent into cruel slavery. Meanwhile Lopo de Mezquita, who had remained in the naos after great efforts and with the help of Our Lord won his battle against the water. He escaped in the naos and went to Chaul where he found Antonio de Miranda, with the money he made by selling the merchandise from the ship he paid up the shares owed to those from the armada and sixty thousand cruzados were saved for the king. Chapter: 70 Henrique de Macedo was at the Bay of Diu the storm having passed which had caused the others to take shelter. In this calm he encountered the fustas coming from Diu, which numbered thirty-three and whose captain was a brave Moor called Ali Shah. When he saw the galleon, he ordered it to be surrounded and bombarded; The Portuguese also began to fire their artillery and a battle ensued, the
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