At the day’s end Almeida went from ship to ship, embracing his captains, enquiring about the wounded. In the morning there was a ceremonial gathering on the flagship to the sound of trumpets, then a counting of the costs. Numbers varied between thirty and a hundred dead, and perhaps three hundred wounded – mainly by wooden shrapnel and arrows – but the victory had been complete. The Egyptian fleet had been annihilated. All its ships had been sunk, captured or burned. Apart from Hussain and twenty-two who fled with him, few of the Rumes survived to tell the tale. According to Portuguese sources
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