_ 30 _ The King of Melinde besought me to destroy some places in the neighbourhood with which for many years he had waged war, and I did so, and in order to effect this he gave me as a help four or five hundred Moors, which number sufficed to do his will, and whereas I was very scandalized with Mombaça and the Moors of Melinde beseeching me with these and the said hundred men I had brought in my company I determined upon attacking it with the intention and hope of taking it, and as they had heard of my coming they were very well prepared and had a large number as a reinforcement. I went on shore one morning at day, dawn, and the Moors who had come in my company would not disembark, and as it could be done with far less peril, I approached the wall of the said place, as I was not forced to do so and because we were low in number, and the Moors had to refuse to come out to land, we were very much harassed and many were wounded of my company, and I received two arrow shots in the neck which nearly brought me to death's door through one being poisoned; the men were mustered together and embarked in the best order we could manage at the time. On board there died seven or eight men from the wounds they had received on land, among which was
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