_ 100 _ of the fortress at Benasterim, whose outer walls were completed during the month of January 1513, together with a four-storey tower entirely built of stone. This tower had its watch-turrets on each side, and it was joined to another tower which reacher up to its first storey. This smaller structure looked onto the river, and it was built of wood over some very thick pillars; it was covered by an open terrace which faced the mainland, upon which the large artillery pieces were positioned. Next to the larger tower there was a water well, besides these the governor ordered the building of another tower in Pangim, and of others in the Noroa pass and the Passo Sero. While work was proceeding in this fashion, the governor learnt of Dom Garcia's approach, and he prepared to leave for the Red Sea. After Dom Garcia's arrival he still delayed his departure for five days, during which time he dispatched a man called Francisco Nogueira, and Goncalo Mendes (who had formerly been the factor of Cannanore) to go and negotiate a peace treaty with the King of Calicut, so that he would give them a place where they might build a fortress, as the prince had told Dom Garcia. After these men Ieft, the governor assembled all the captains in his own ship and told them that the orders the
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