_ 122 _ knights already. After this incident he remained in the city for another three days, taking all its provisions to the ships and afterwards setting fire to it. On the 30th of August he left for the Teuhi water supply, which is at four leagues from Calayate and where the water is of the best possible quality. Here there is a small Arab village called Teuhi, where the inhabitants of Calayate still come looking for him. As a result, there were a few skirmishes during the two days the Portuguese stayed there to take water. As our men pressed hard on the Arabs they would retreat to some nearby mountains. From there they dropped many millstones over our men, without however causing them any harm, whereas a few of them were killed. After taking water at this place the commander-in-chief left for Ormuz, where he arrived on the 13th of September. Chapter: 87 Cojeatar, fearing that Afonso de Albuquerque might return, completed the tower which he (Albuquerque) had begun to build. It had two storeys and a terrace on top, and plenty of artillery which had been cast by the renegades. He had the ends of all the streets which looked on to the sea closed off by very strong walls, so that from the shoreside the city was completely walled in. And he had
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