_ 223 _ Soon Lopo de Sousa attacked them with his men, and they fought so bravely that they killed all the Moors who were in front and those that were just behind them. The rest fled away leaving thirty dead. The Portuguese lost none, though Lopo de Sousa was wounded in the leg and another man similarly. One of the pages lost an eye. Whilst Lopo da Sousa lay wounded the captains of his guard were Goncalo Falcao and Gaspar de Sousa, and they captured a leading Moor. From him Antonic da Silveira learnt that in Ali Khan's camp it was said that a Moorish nao had arrived at Mangalore. It was said it had brought the news that in Aden there was a huge. Turkish armada though he was not certain of this. However, the sea was calm, and Antonio da Silveria sent Miguel Vaz to Mangalore to go ahead and find news of the Turkish armada. After Lopo de Sousa returned to command the guard, he one day found a kind of rat poison that had been put in the walls. Antonio da Silveira therefore forbid anyone to go out again and gathered everyone in the fortress. From the bastion and the Turkish quarter, he fired many random shots at the Moors and did them much damage. Antonio da Silveira wrote to the governor by sea of his situation, asking him for help which he soon sent as I shall relate.
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