_ 248 _ wind as he could, he arrived ashore ahead of the galleys, just as an artillery piece of the captain-major’s galleon hit a galley that was sailing in front, causing it to list and the others were stranded ashore. Then Dom Jeronimo steered between the galleys and, running his caravel aground between two of theirs and with fifteen or twenty soldiers, he attacked one of them and put all the Turks to death by the sword. When Dom Manuel Mascarenhas, who was very close behind him reached the galleys between which he was stuck fast, he, fired so many volleys at one of them that he set it on fire, and moving forward he rammed another which also surrendered. The other caravels also began arriving, each one ramming its galley. When Dom Fernando de Monroi and Antonio de Valardes, set a course for the galleys, they immediately boarded them and they had a very fierce sword fight with the Turks, in which they killed many and forced others to throw themselves overboard. After he had captured his two galleys, Dom Jeronimo had a tow rope thrown into the sea and by tugging on it freed himself from the sandbank and he took the galleys with him. Then, because generous and courageous souls never need to prove their own worth to others, he
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