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bowls, and they did not fight any other way. Thus 

 embairassed, the wind drove them out to sea, so 

 that the ships lengthened their distance from 

 them, always doing them much damage with the 

 artillery, because our shot was much more powerful 

 than theirs. As at this time the ships of burden 

 had come up, Vicente Sodrd loosed his sails and 

 ran on after the caravels, which were now reach- 

 ing the other squadron of the Moors, the captain 

 of which was the Moor Coja Kasim, which con- 

 sisted of more than a hundred sail, but the greater 

 part of them were sambuks, which he had collected 

 to make a show of a great fleet ; and these, seeing 

 the ships and caravels coming, as they left the 

 others already routed, were greatly afraid. But the 

 Moor held on his course with all his large ships 

 straight for our ships to board them, and Vicente 

 Sodrd did not turn aside because he went with all 

 his artillery ready, and Ruy Lorenzo Kavasco and 

 Vasco Fernandes Tinoco, who were in the other 

 ships, also went prepared. As the wind freshened 

 and was better for our ships, they made straight 

 for the Moorish flagship which came foremost 

 and in the centre of the others, and before closing 

 there was a discharge of many shot ; and as the 

 flagship carried much artillery, one shot entered 

 the ship of Vasco Tinoco, and killed him and two 

 men, wounding others with splinters of wood, but 

 a shot from the Portuguese ship took the flagship 

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