_ 173 _ in the works that have foundations in water like this was. It was used on the houses of the king with two entrances, one to the city and the other to the sea, in order that one could enter without danger and leave without embarkation being impeded or likewise enter it from the sea. Shared out among the captaincies our men brought the stone in boats from certain buildings and from a quarry in a point on the island called Turumbaca. In building these works Afonso de Albuquerque operated in the following fashion: at daybreak the men would come from the naos in all the small boats and skips to the place. When it was sunset they would withdraw to the naos. The manner of going and coming of the men was always done to hide from the Moors how few he had, fearing that if they did know it some mischief might be attempted. Because there was the belief amongst them that there were two thousand men in the naos, in order that they should not lose this opinion he used to change the men as in a comedy, some coming in different appearances, now with some arms, now with others shared amongst the ships by turns. Having spent some days working there in the greatest speed they could, Khwaja Attar sent word to Afonso d’ Albuquerque that on the mainland side in
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