_ 250 _ sharing their captaincies out among a number of the captains of the foists. He gave the galley “Santa Elena” to Sebastião de Macedo; the galley Santa Lucia” to Manuel de Siqueira; the “Conceição” to Baltasar Monteiro; the “Vitoria” to Gomes da Silva; the “Santiago” to Jorge Pereira; and the “S. Miguel” to Gonçalo Guedes. In these galleys they took forty-seven pieces of artillery made of bronze, amongst which there were basilisks, spheres, and captured cannons with up to forty arretels of shot, plus some camels and falcons. Dom Fernando immediately sent word of this victory to his father while he supplied the fleet with what was needed. Our caravels which were sailing behind the galleys chased them as far as the coast of India. Seven of the latter took shelter in Surat, where Dom Jeronimo de Castelo Branco, Nuno de Castro and Dom Manuel Mascarenhas stationed themselves at the bar and blockaded them. Dom Fernando de Monroi and Antonio de Valardes went after the other two galleys and restricted their movements in such a way that they forced them to beach, one in Daman and the other in Danu, where they were smashed to pieces, then they passed on to Bassein. When Francisco de Sá de Meneses the captain of that fortress found out that the other two galleys were
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