_ 217 _ more shots, and the Turks fired back. However, Lopo de Sousa being a brave man was not going to be satisfied with this, and he jumped on land with Miguel Vaz and all those of his company. They attacked the Turks with such price that they were made to flee away, leaving some dead. This appeared on the following day in the quantity of blood found there and the guts of men whose bodies had been taken away by the survivors, so that the Portuguese should not know the casualties they had suffered, Miguel Vaz was wounded by a musket shot in the foot. Nevertheless, as the Moors were so many as I said the Portuguese could not stop them from extending the artillery positions and placing them in at least hundred passages on the river. Thus, they prevented the Portuguese from navigating there because during the whole of the day and night they were deploying their artillery, wounding and killing the Portuguese. Antonio da Silveira therefore saw clearly that he could not defend the island with the few men he had. Also, as he had the cisterns full of water and did not need that which was on the island, he decided with advice to move away from the Moors, this was done on the 9th of August. Through Payo Rodriguez de Araujo he sent word at night to the captains at the passages to withdraw into the
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