_ 204 _ the king to be part of his fleet, and they began to fire their artillery at the Portuguese. When Goncalo Vaz Coutinho and other captains saw this, they being too far behind to reach the king, they grappled the Turkish vessels and then fought those on board, killing almost all of them. The king was hurrying to his refuge as fast as he could and arrived among the bastions where he would be safe. However, Our Lord who saw how prejudicial his salvation would have been for the Portuguese ordained that on reaching there one of our catures came out of the river, captained by a Portuguese called Dalcunha Panta Fasul. He crossed before him and with a shot from a berco killed four of his oarsmen. At this moment the tide was ebbing and took the fusta out of it, with the shortage of oarsmen and our fleet pursuing him it seemed to the king better to save himself by swimming. He therefore threw himself into the sea and those with him. When he saw a fusta captained by Tristao de Payya from Santarem the king shouted in his language that he should not kill him as he was the King of Cambay. He would give a great deal of money if he was saved. Tristao de Payva reassured him and threw him an oar, to which he clung. Then he gave him another in the form
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