79 lot of trade here, because of its excellent harbour, with many ships from Mecca, the city of Aden; Hormuz; Cambay, and Malabar coming here. Adil Khan had a captain and many soldiers to guard the city, and nobodycouldenter the islandunless theycamewith specific authorisation and with caution; he also had magistrates; clerks, and guards and they registered everyone who tried to enter, writing down who he was and where he came from, and how many distinguishing marks he had, and then they would let him come and go. It is a very large city with fine houses, with beautiful trees and tanks with good water; mosques and gentile temples, and all the surrounding land is fully cultivated. Adil Khan had a great deal of income from both land and sea. When he heard of the Viceroy, Dom Francisco d’Almeida’s, defeat of the Turks off Diu, as was described earlier, he summoned all those who had escaped. They left their captain, Mirocem, in the kingdom of Gujarat and came to Goa. Adil Khan received them well and decided to give them all the help and support they needed to rebuild and with the help of other Mouros kings and merchants to wage war on our people. Having raised a large sum of money, they started to build galleys and brigs in the channel of Goa. They did it all according to our tradition and style, with plenty of iron and copper artillery, and all the other war munitions needed for the sea. They pressed on with it so quickly, that they quickly had a large part of thefleet ready and huge stores full of everything they needed, in perfect order. And they were so confident, that they set out to sea in look-outs and pinnaces to look-out for the zambucos that were passing with safe-conducts given by Our Lord and King and Afonso d’Albuquerque, who was Captain of the Indian Oceanfleet at that time, and they would capture them. As this became more and more frequent, so the said Afonso d’Albuquerque was informed, and he decided to go and see them and dissuade them from their purpose. He rounded up a large number of
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