In Particular, Duarte Pacheco, Not Being Able To Find His Boat In The Place Where He Had Left It, Was Closely Pursued; And Though He And His Company Defended Themselves Valiantly, And Killed Many Of The Enemy, Eight Of His Men Were Wounded With Arrows.

So superior was the number of the enemy on this occasion, that Pacheco and his men had assuredly been

All slain, if the rest of the troops had not again landed to his rescue; on which the enemy lost heart and run away, leaving the field of battle strewed over with their slain. After the defeat of the nayres, our men set fire to fifteen paraws, which were drawn up on the beach, and carried away seven which were afloat.

The lord of Repelim was much grieved at the destruction of his towns; and being afraid of our people making an attack on another about a league farther up the river, he sent a strong detachment of his nayres for its security. The generals, however, resolved to follow up their victory, and to do all the evil in their power to the territories of this lord. For this purpose, after allowing their men some time for rest, they departed about midnight, while it was still so dark that they could not see each other in the boats, expecting to come upon their enemies by surprise by dawn of next morning. The boats in which Alonso de Albuquerque and his party were embarked got considerably a-head of the rest, and arrived at the town which it was intended to attack a good while before day.

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