_ 153 _ depended for its defences on him alone, as also for its repairs, provisions and for archers, which he had sent for from Persia and Arabia. He had also given instructions on how the force of ships should be organized and this gave him even more prestige. From these and other reasons he awed the king and all our men before Afonso de Albuquerque’s arrival. He had such complete power that the most important men began to suspect him. Because he had filled the city up with so many Arabs and Persian archers and had made such preparations for its defense, it could be through that he had planned to take over the whole kingdom for himself. Finally at the time Afonso de Albuquerque arrived at the city of Ormuz it was well provided with all manner of goods because of Khwaja Attar’s preparations. It had thirty thousand warriors of whom more than four thousand were Persian archers, people of great skill in this art. There were more than four hundred sailing vessels’ including sixty naos, among which there was one belonging to the King of Cambay of more eight hundred tons and one of another prince of almost the same tonnage. In these two ships there were about one thousand soldiers and one thousand five hundred in all the others,
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