_ 203 _ Alvaro Mendez saw this and soon grappled one of the fustas into which he jumped with some of his men. He fought with such little fear that he killed most of them and the others very wounded tried to jump overboard. However, the king's page fired an arrow into his stomach at this moment and he fell dead, In the same way Alfonso Fialho was killed and ten or twelve others. All would have been lost if they had not succeeded in killing the page with a musket shot. Lopo de Sousa and Diogo de Mezquita were surrounded by Moors and although they received many wounds, they killed five or six of them. Nevertheless, the others Moors realizing they were exhausted and weak from lost of blood closed in. Being much stronger they attacked, pushing them into the sea where they would have died if they had not been pulled out. When the king saw that his fusta had been cleared of Portuguese he ordered it to be rowed at full speed to the city. Almost all our rowing vessels pursued him firing their artillery. It was now complete confusion, the air filled with shouts, cannon and musket fire. This was seen by the Turks anchored in a galeota and a taforea which had arrived there, having been ordered by
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