_ 103 _ ordered; he did not order him to build a fortress because even if he did they did not have enough men to maintain it. The Captain-in-Chief was informed of this petition before he received it, because Francisco de Tavora did not what to sing it; neither did João da Nova, who said that these obligations did not concern him because he had to go to India at once and it was time for him to leave. The Captains were pleased at this, and encouraged João da Nova to ask permission to go to India; for the time had come and he could not denied. When João da Nova had gone. The fleet would be smaller and they would have fewer men and their request would have more substance, and so they decided not to make it until João da Nova had been sent on his way; of all of these the Captain-in-Chief was informed. The next day he told the Captain that he already had many masons and laborers to do the work, whom he would have to pay in order not to make the soldiers work, and all they had to do was to send the seamen with boats to Tarum Bagh, where the stone-quarry was, and load the stone into the boats and carry it to the work site. To make sure there was no disorder, the Captains would go with their boats and soldiers to protect the boats until they had finished
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