_ 244 _ Dom Antão de Noronha, who at that time was sailing in his galleon, transferred to a galliot with many nobles and soldiers so as to parley with the captain-major, because the Viceroy had thus written to him to do this, and that his son should do nothing without his advice. At that time, the wind was freshening and the galleys were approaching the shore. The galleon of Gomes da Silva was very close to their cannonades and as Dom Antão knew that the galleon was short of men, because in the hurry to embark most of them had remained in Ormuz, he was afraid some disaster would befall it because it was at some distance from the other fleet, so he asked the nobles who were sailing with him if they would like to join the galleon, thereby rendering a great service to His Majesty. With the approval of all, he approached it, risking being attacked by all the galleys, and after offloading nearly thirty men onto it, he returned to the captain-major’s galleon and boarded it, while the galleys moved ever closer inshore and withdrew to the inmost part of the inlet where the galleons could not reach. When Dom Fernando saw the galleys clinging to the shore, he took advice about what he should do, but there were so many conflicting suggestions that they did not manage to reach a decision. Thereupon, an old and
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