Honour, glory, fear, a greed for booty and bad luck had inflicted this wound. They could have destroyed the entire Egyptian fleet at a distance if they had followed the advice of their master gunner. But this was not the Portuguese way. As it was they sailed away, badly scarred. They had lost probably two hundred men at Chaul. The killing of the viceroy’s son conferred immense prestige on the sultan in Cairo, and on the valour of the Muslim world.
