When the Captains, Fidalgoes, and Cavaliers, who were on the top of the wall—that is to say, Jorge da Silveira, Aires da Silva, D. João de Lima, Vicente Dalboquerque, D. João Déssa, Ruy Galvão, Joao de Meira, Euy Palha, João de Ataíde, Manuel da Costa, João Gonçalvez de Castelo-Branco, Tristão de Miranda, Garcia de Sousa, D. Alvaro de Castro, Lourenço Godinho, Gil Simões, and other servants of the king—perceived that the Moors were barking at them below, piqued at the little account in which they were held by them, and without waiting for any further reinforcements, they leaped down at them, and, with brave endeavours, came to close quarters with them, and, pursuing them as they ran, they got in, altogether in a confused mass, inside the palisades which had been set up at the mouths of the streets leading to the market square, until they reached a terrace, where they slew very many of the enemy.

Mira Merjão, the Captain of the city, who was watching the train-bands, which Afonso Dalboquerque had stationed on the edge of the mountain range, to see that they did not make any movement of coming down, for, if they had come down, they would have fallen upon him in the rear, and, in that case, would have inflicted a severe blow upon him, saw that they did not make any move, so he sallied out, with a band of about a hundred Moors, and fell upon our party from the wall.