_ 256 _ great energy and killed one of them. They also wounded others fleeing behind the rest, who were already far away. Believing the fortress to be deserted, our three men made their way inside, climbed the bulwark to the captain’s post and began to shout, “Portugal”! At this, D. Antão de Noronha got up completely bewildered. When he asked what was going on, he was told what had happened, because the men on the wall had already informed the soldiers of his post. This put the whole army in turmoil. Dom Antão de Noronha ordered everyone to arm themselves and he waited for the morning. As soon as it became light, he made his way to the fortress, which he entered (as the three soldiers had already opened the gates). Our men there were in such a hurry that some entered through the large gaps that our artillery had opened in the defensive wall, and a certain Lourenço Feio from the island of Madeira, who died recently, told us that he was one of them. D. Antão de Noronha entered the fortress (in which nothing was to be found but a couple of small artillery pieces, some munitions and a small quantity of clothing that the Turks had been unable to take with them), and he summoned the guazil Rais Sharaf and told him that “that fortress belonged to the king of Ormuz and he was handing
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