_ 76 _ The pilot confirmed this because that night he would round the Cape of Ras-El-Had. With all of us still on board, the Christian men, women and children and sailors, we continued on our way towards the Cape. That day we ran into five terradas mined by pirates. We were not carrying any weapons other than the six spears, which I had saved by wading the sea. The Captain-Major boarded us and we captured his terrada. One of his brothers received two spear wounds and almost all the men, three of them, were wounded. We boarded his terrada but all three of us were wounded. I had the responsibility of looking after the terrada and the boat as well as protecting my wife and daughter; I never took my eyes off them. Praised be to Our Lord that the other terradas did not have enough strength to board us. Three or four times they promised that they would not fight any more. Their Captain-Major said that he wanted to board, unarmed, to see me. He swore on oath that he would spare my wife, my daughter and me, all three of us. The ship’s master, a native Persian, was the interpreter. I replied to the master that he was not to give me any more message from that thieving dog, whereupon they gave me two arrow wounds in my right, one going through it in a place which prevents me from using it any more.
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