_ 77 _ Near nightfall, seeing that I had received eight arrow wounds, and I was alone…… one spear, because all the sailors had fled to dry land with a Portuguese…… I allowed their Captain-Major to board the boat unarmed and we talked. I was forced to come to an arrangement. I took him to the bow of the ship and showed my wife and daughter. He is called Cide …… and is about fifty. At this moment, all the devils boarded and the first person whom they wanted to kill was my wife. Some thief …… my daughter with a dagger. I begged him to remain calm and I gave my darling girl, sweet little woman, a…… I asked my wife to give me a ……be sure to be saved by a cross which she wore around her neck. It was worth 40 xerafins and I gave it to the Captain-Major, begging him was white. He said that yes, he would comply with my requests. Therefore, I asked him permission to board his terrada with my wife and daughter which he granted unwillingly. Then they killed the six remaining Portuguese. The pirates brought me, half dead, to dry land and would have cut off my head. They asked me if I wanted to become a Muslim. I said no that I was a Christian and a native of Portugal, that there was no reason for me to become a Muslim, nor my wife or daughter. I told them that all three of us wanted to ransom ourselves. I reminded him that,
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