While Marching Towards The City, 12,000 Foot
And 100 Horse Came Out To Meet Him.
His musqueteers killed at least 300
of them, and pursued the rest to a bridge which led into the city.
The
governor was on the inside with 600 men, and defended the passage of the
bridge till he was slain by a musquet shot, immediately on which his men
fled, and were pursued with great slaughter till they ran out at the
opposite side of the city. The city was plundered, on which occasion he
who even got least was enriched, after which the place was reduced to
ashes. Having thus gloriously redeemed his prisoners, Antonio returned
to his ships with many beautiful female captives, having only lost eight
men, one of whom was a Portuguese.
Antonio now resumed his intended expedition for the mines, but in the
first place went to pass the winter at Pulo Hindor, an inhabited
island fifteen leagues from Nauday. When near the islands of
Commolem, he was attacked by two large ships in which were 200
resolute men commanded by a pirate named Premata Gundel, a mortal
enemy to the Portuguese, to whom he had done much harm, but thought now
he had only to encounter Chinese merchant ships. One of the pirate ships
came up to board one of those belonging to Antonio, but Qiay Panjau
came up against her in full sail and ran so furiously upon the pirate
ship that both went down instantly, but Quiay and most of his men were
saved.
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