Storia do Mogor 338.19.6

338.19.6

Finding themselves thus invested, the Portuguese prepared nine galleons and a dispatch-boat, all thoroughly armed, and came out to seek the Dutch. The latter, seeing that these ships sailed in good order, began to retire, discharging a few guns. The Portuguese followed, until, finding the Dutch declined to accept battle, they retired in the same way, while the Dutch turned again and anchored where they had been at first. The next day the Portuguese resumed the same tactics and the Dutch acted as before. The same thing was done for three days, and still the Dutch declined to fight, the galleons being very large and powerful, and thus they could not hope to come out of it well. Foreseeing that the prudence of these people (the Portuguese) would come to an end, they bided their time, in order to carry out their plan more safely.