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to come away from them, and remained in that place like men 

 who wished to act on the defensive rather than the offensive. 

 As soon as Lopo Soarez gave the "Santiago! 9,1 our men, 

 taking no account of the smoke of their bombards, nor looking 

 to see where they were aimed, competed with one another as 

 to who should first climb over the top of the positions, as 

 if on the summit of them was the special prize of victory 

 of each. However, this courage cost some of them blood 

 and life ; for not only were several wounded by arrows 

 and firelock shots, but some were also killed by the bombards, 

 the chief of whom was Verissimo Pacheco, who (as we have 

 said) had come from Malaca with the news of the imprison- 

 ment of his brother Antonio Pacheco 2 . This conflict having 

 gone on amidst the obscurity of the smoke of the artillery 

 for a short space of time, during which our men tarried in their 

 ascent of the position, as soon as a handful of them had made 

 themselves masters of it, they cut up the enemy in such fashion 

 that they put them all to flight; not failing to fallow on their 

 heels, driving them at the sword's point 3 . Lopo Soarez, 

 seeing that some captains had got a little opposite to where 

 there were trees, from which they might receive some harm, 

 chiefly Christovam de Sousa, who had crossed over a stream a 

 long way from the position, commanded to sound the trumpet 

 for them to return 4 , since he was now master of his enemies' 

 fortress, and to carry off those pieces of artillery that he found 

 there : and without making further stay, in order to give the 

 men a rest, he once more embarked. 



On the following day, everything being already in readiness 

 for his purpose, he went ashore : and the first thing that he 

 set about was to fortify himself, making himself master of the 

 point which he desired for founding the fortress, the which 



1 The Spanish (and Portuguese) war-cry, the apostle James being the 

 patron saint of Spain. 



2 Barros relates this in III. i. ix. On the death of Jorge de Brito, 

 captain of Malacca, the succession to the post was disputed by the 

 alcaide mo> Nuno Vaz Pereira (c/. p. 25) and the captain-major of the 

 sea Antonio Pacheco, which culminated in the former's imprisoning the 

 latter. 



3 Correa in his account of the engagement states that D. Fernando 

 de Monroyo with his twelve foists and the galliot and brigantine bom- 

 barded the Moors from the sea. As Castanheda and Barros say nothing 

 of this I take it that Correa has confused this engagement with that of two 

 years later (see pp. 52, 53), which he does not record. 



4 According to Castanheda, Christovao de Sousa returned of his own 

 accord, and, on making a somewhat vainglorious remark to the governor, 

 received in reply a characteristic snub. 



