_ 327 _ dangerous situations, and he shared with everyone in their sufferings and their wounds, because he himself received three, and not small ones at that, from three arrows. When Dom Diogo de Noronha saw the struggle and the danger Gonçalo Pereira's galleon was in, which he was unable to help, he was very upset and almost beside himself with rage and fury. He ordered the sloops from the galleons to be manned and to throw away towlines, to see if anything could be done for them, but when he saw that these efforts were useless, he ordered all the oared ships to come and help him. However, although their captains put a great deal of effort into this, they were unable to reach him, some of them went very close to the galleys because they were all in a circle surrounding them. The afflicted galleon was in this difficult situation until the hour of vespers, when a fresh breeze began to blow, at which the other galleons began to reach it. As soon as he saw that the breeze was strengthening and that his galleys were badly damaged, Barbarossa abandoned the galleon and setting sail towards the coast on the Persian side, he resumed his homeward journey to Basra, followed in the rear by the carrack that formerly belonged to João Nunes Homem, which Piri Reis had captured in Ormuz.
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