Mahomet On His Part Was Not Idle; He Solicited The Assistance Of The Mahometan Princes, Pressed Them With All The Motives Of Religion, And Obtained A Reinforcement Of Two Thousand Musketeers From The Arabs, And A Train Of Artillery From The Turks.

Animated with these succours, he marched out of his trenches to enter those of the Portuguese, who received him

With the utmost bravery, destroyed prodigious numbers of his men, and made many sallies with great vigour, but losing every day some of their small troops, and most of their officers being killed, it was easy to surround and force them.

Their general had already one arm broken, and his knee shattered with a musket-shot, which made him unable to repair to all those places where his presence was necessary to animate his soldiers. Valour was at length forced to submit to superiority of numbers; the enemy entered the camp and put all to the sword. The general with ten more escaped the slaughter, and by means of their horses retreated to a wood, where they were soon discovered by a detachment sent in search of them, and brought to Mahomet, who was overjoyed to see his most formidable enemy in his power, and ordered him to take care of his uncle and nephew, who were wounded, telling him he should answer for their lives; and, upon their death, taxed him with hastening it. The brave Portuguese made no excuses, but told him he came thither to destroy Mahometans, and not to save them.

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