_ 45 _ at night so that nobody can pass from the other side into the city. Item: From this bridge the waterway continues to stretch upstream, but it is very narrow. A little way up from this bridge there is the shipyard where the galleys are built. The new galleys are beached at a refuge of the fortress and those which work with them are beached elsewhere, as with those in the river, for when they are needed. Item: Every night men pass on horseback along this bridge from the other side to guard it. They retire at day-break. They do this because they fear their neighbours, especially the Gizares, who could set free to the galleys and enter the city. Item: The fortress is at one point of the city along the waterway in front of the bridge mentioned above. The two ends of the walls that encircle the city lead to this fortress to enclose it within them. The fortress has a small ditch which fills and empties of water from the river with the tide. There is nothing between that fortress and the houses of the city but this ditch. It appears that the fortress has very little artillery. There is a camelo of metal at the gate of the fortress. It also has cão chimbero, and an espalhafato which is broken.
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