_ 249 _ announced publicly that Dom Manuel Mascarenhas had captured one of them and destroyed it. The people in the six galleys who escaped from the hands of our men, all jumped into the sea, but not even there could they escape the clutches of those sailing in our foists, who placed themselves between the galleys and the land and did not allow any of those floundering in the sea to survive. Ali Chebuli, who had passed the promontory with the nine galleys, stationed himself out at sea observing the fight with our fleet, and when he saw the six galleys captured he set sail again towards the other coast, intending to make his way to Cambay, because he believed that if he returned to Constantinople he would run the great risk of the Grand Turk having his head cut off. However, when our caravels saw these galleys leave they pursued them with as much speed as they could muster. Pleased with that victory insofar as it was just, Dom Fernando retired to Muscat to tend to the wounded, where he ordered the six galleys to be repaired and rebuilt. He also ransomed the galley slaves from the hands of the soldiers and ordered the galleys to be blessed by the priests, giving all of them a name by which they were to be known, and
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