_ 219 _ The same thing happened to Goncalo Falcao who was going along in a barge with the men and artillery from the bastion in which he was captain and to Luis Rodriguez de Cravalu who was in a fusta. Their men did not wish to wait and all blindly fled, leaving the artillery and other arms to the Moors without fighting them. Thus, the Moors gained in one night what they could not have done in many days of continuous battle. Lopo de Sousa Coutinho also raised sail in his galeota but with the great wind that was blowing and the ebbing tide he was thrown onto the mainland, where he was grounded a stone's throw from the middle of the river. Realizing that he had gone aground he moved his batel away down the river because he feared that those with him might flee away in it, not knowing that they could not go away as the river there was wider than elsewhere. As dawn broke the Moors saw it so close to land and so far from the deep water that they thought they could capture it. Three hundred of them Turks Abyssinians and Arabs attacked the galeota; giving out great cries. As they moved forward Lopo de Sousa raised his standard, leaving his lance in the middle of the galeota and said with a smiling face "although some cowardice, tried to come upon me these gentlemen who are in my company are such brave
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