_ 205 _ of a pipe thrust in the face which ran him through. On seeing him thus wounded Tristao de Payva finished him off with a sword he went to the bottom and never reappeared. Santiago was also swimming and got as far as the sea bastion where a Portuguese hit him on the head with a Iarge stone and he died. All the others were killed too except for Khwaja Safai who received two head wounds but was saved by Antonio de Souto Mayr, because he knew him. Thus, was the end of the King of Cambay, the great lord of territory, people and treasure. If he had escaped alive, knowing that the Portuguese wanted to kill him he would have given them great trouble. He had more than fifty thousand men in Diu, a fleet and artillery. But Our Lord having mercy on the Portuguese allowed them to kill him seeing their carelessness in not seizing him when they had him in their hands, knowing of the treachery they planned and the hatred he had for the Portuguese.
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