_ 258 _ fidalgos so as to finish it more quickly), Dom Antão set off with him together with most of those who were there. It was his good fortune but the bad luck of those who remained behind that, as he was leaving, a spark from one of the fires burning in the houses of the fortress, fell on the mine in the latrine next to the bulwark which Dom Antão had left. It landed next to the loose powder that surrounded the barrels. This caught fire and blew up the latrine and the bulwark, which collapsed on those who were in its shelter, burying forty Portuguese and injuring many others. Among the known dead, were Pedro Afonso de Avelar’s son, Pero Coelho de Castro, Baltasar do Amaral, the son of Doctor Francisco do Amaral magistrate of the court, Gonçalo Morais de Sousa, Francisco Botelho, the son of an official of the inquisition in this Kingdom, and many other very honourable knights. Dom Antão rushed to the spot and seeing the catastrophe (from which he had escaped by a hair’s breadth), he was so moved by it that tears streamed from his eyes. On seeing him in this state, Mir [Maxet], the guazil of Moghistan, approached him and said: “Sir, these things happen in time of war, so do not take them to heart. Remember that the Turks are very close
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