_ 199 _ this I confess to Your Highness was a subject of joy in the camp, but the Portuguese who thought not so much of their safety as of being annoyed, scrambled over the wall and even slew some and captured a great many of which deed the Moors of our Company were greatly astonished far more than the enemy in fear. Because they are not in the habit of entering so late at night into the fortresses due to which, on the following day I received new that the Xeque Mana had come up within two leagues from the fortress and the relief, as I had been informed, and there he was met with the news that it had been taken, so he than turned back as it was now useless to proceed further. As soon as the fortress was repaired the best way that it could be done, I delivered it up to Reis Nordim in the same manner as other fortresses of the Kingdom had been delivered, and I then started for Ormuz because the right reason for going to India was already in, and I took with me the men who had come in my company for now they had returned safe and sound. The enemy having slain two only and one there had died from sickness. God did us no small favour to us when we take into consideration the unhealthiness of the land
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