When the Hidalcão became aware that the great Afonso Dalboquerque would not reply to the proposition concerning an agreement of a peaceable nature between them, he hastened more than ever to send the captain and men whom he had told off for Pangij. And when this captain arrived at the fortress he ordered his men without loss of time to attack our ships with his artillery, and inflicted great damage upon us in this manner. There was one day when they struck us with fifty large cannon-balls, besides other smaller shot. Our men were so disconcerted and dejected at this new difficulty in which they were involved, that they began to imagine that the Moors would be able to take the ships by means of their rafts, and this fear seized them in such a complete manner that Afonso Dalboquerque dared not try to rouse them out of it by reprehension, lest he should drive them to despair. But, on the contrary, when they approached him for the purpose of giving him advice as to what was best to be done in order to extricate himself from the peril in which he was situated, he replied that he was quite of the same opinion as themselves with regard to everything they said, and that he would put it.