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Sao Miguel, having been told that it was in straits, and seeing 

 the energy with which Domingos Marques, who was its 

 captain, was fighting, asked him if he had need of anyone or 

 of anything, and he replied no. He then passed on by the 

 stretch of wall to the bastion of Conceicao , the^captain of 

 which was Antonio Pereira, whom he foundjvery well 1 

 supplied with munitions, his soldiers righting mfmarvellous 

 order with much courage and energy. Considering him safe, 

 he went on to the bastion of Sao Pedro 2 , of which Thome 

 Pires was captain, which he found well fortified, and with him 

 all his comrades full of courage, fighting very vigorously, being 

 hard beset by the enemy, it being less than a hundred paces 

 to the opposite bank, and the lake being there quite dry, 

 at which part it was attacked very determinedly, the enemy 

 being many times repulsed with much loss : wherefore seeing 

 that he had nothing to do there he went round the other parts, 

 at which he always offered and tendered his services in all the 

 troubles that he found there. 



At the bastion of Madre de Deus, in which was Estevao 

 Correa, the enemy received the very greatest damage : 

 because being over against the part by which the enemy had 

 to go out to battle, the artillery being levelled upon it, on 

 their making their appearance it gave them such a warm 

 welcome, that before they knew that they were seen they felt 

 the fury of their cannon-balls, by which many were torn to 

 pieces, and in the assault that they made on it were greatly 

 undeceived, since they so prevented their ascent at the cost of 

 others, that they now attempted it with less confidence. 



And although at all parts the extremity was great, yet at 

 the bastion of Sao Miguel it was very great, because on it were 

 concentrated the chief forces of the enemy, with many ele- 

 phants, many pots of powder and other appliances, striving to 

 mount on the top : but being prevented from doing this with 

 great courage, which the captain Domingos Marques showed in 

 all these troubles and dangers, aided by the master gunner of 

 the fortress, named Pero Gonsalves, a man famous at his 

 business, which he carried out with great ease and fortitude, 

 making many and very accurate shots, which caused great 

 carnage among the enemy ; and at the greatest height of the 

 danger, the enemy being in the act of boarding, he ran to the 

 wall, defending it valorously, leaning with half his body out 

 of the embrasures in order to wound and kill those that were 



1 The printed edition has soberbamenie (proudly), an error, apparently , 

 for sobreabundantemente. The manuscript has bem. 



2 Sic, for Sao Paulo ? (See supra, p. 296, and infra, p. 332.) 



