_ 395 _ urge that he wanted to pursue he excused himself by saying that to insist so much in this matter was not because of the men who fled, because there were enough of them without them and it was of little account because they were of such little value. It was more on account of not giving encouragement to the Moors to attempt another and bigger thing. He had learnt how they had broken down the wall of the king’s houses and it therefore did not evidently suit them to guard their secrets and dissemble to him if they could do a public thing like that, seeing with what energy they had carried it out. For these reasons and other which Afonso de Albuquerque presented in service to the king, he obliged all to make that war on the city. Because the city was maintained from the mainland which had nothing but water, vegetables and fruit and this came to it every day from there, he sent Manuel Telles. Afonso Lopes da Costa and Antonio do Campo to place themselves in various places around the island to prevent anything coming to it. In this way the city would see itself under great pressure. Apart from the need they had for those things, they had captured some terradas which are small boats, and they cut
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