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Gragne, mounted on a bay horfe, advancing too near 

 Don Chriftopher' s line that he might fee if in any part it 

 was acceffible to his cavalry, and being known by his drefs to 

 be an officer of diftinction, he was fhot at ■by Peter de Sa, a 

 Portuguefe markfman, who killed his horfe, and wounded 

 the rider in the leg. This occafioned a great confufion, and 

 would probably have ended in a defeat of the Moors, had 

 not the Portuguefe general alfo been wounded immediately 

 after by a fhot. Don Chriftopher, to mew his confidence of 

 victory, ordered his men forthwith to pitch their tents, upon 

 which the Moors retired with Gragne (whom they had 

 mounted on another horfe) without being purfued, the A- 

 byflinians having contented themfelves with being fpecta- 

 tors of the battle. 



Don Christopher, with his army and the emprefs, now 

 entered into winter-quarters at AfFalo ; nor did Gragne de- 

 part to any diftance from him, but took up his quarters at 

 Zabul, in hopes always to fight the Portuguefe before it was 

 poffible for them to effect a junction with the king. The 

 winter pafifed in a mutual intercourfe of correfpondence and 

 confidence between the king and Don Chriftopher, and in 

 determining upon the bell fcheme to purfue the war with 

 fuccefs. Don Chriftopher and the queen were both of opi- 

 nion, that, confidering the fmall number of Portuguefe firft 

 landed, and their diminution by fighting, and a ftrange cli- 

 mate, it was rifking every thing to defer a junction till the 

 winter was over. 



The Moorifh general was perfectly of the fame opinion ; 

 therefore, as foon as the king began his march fromDembea, 

 Gragne advanced to Don Chriftopher's camp, and placed him- 



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