_ 460 _ among them who sought or accepted life because all their wives and children were already dead, so they decided to deliver themselves up to death as well. In this way, they took ample revenge by inflicting it on more than forty of our men and wounding more than eighty, an almost everyday occurrence among those who engage in war out of greed, self- interest or vainglory and prefer an uncertain outcome to a sure victory, with their enemies surrendering, in which perhaps there is no less honour than that which is gained by force of arms at the cost of a great deal of blood. Dom Alvaro immediately sent the wounded to Goa because there was little hope of cure there, and many of these also died. Having buried the dead, he handed over the castle to the king, who had also been wounded by a stray musket shot, and he gave him several artillery pieces that he asked for, and a large supply of ammunition for them, because he had decided to build a fortress there to which he could retire. After taking leave of each other, the king sent Dom Alvaro a present of costly artefacts. The latter dispatched the lateen-rigged caravel under the captaincy of Andre de Aguiar, to go and winter in Ormuz and to leave for India
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