_ 208 _ He therefore agreed in a meeting to destroy it and to erect on the water's edge a bastion and strong building to house its captain. This was soon begun and the walls were twenty feet wide. The governor gave the captaincy to one Francisco Pacheco, the judge at the Customs House of Diu, inside the fortress a system was being made, twenty spans deep and so big that each […] corresponded to two hundred and fifty casks of water. At this time the governor sought to renew the truce that Antonio da Silveira had settled with Ali Khan and which had then expired. Ali Khan never responded to this, no matter how many messages were sent to him on the matter. The governor was still expecting the Turks and did not want to spend the monsoon season there. He went to Goa, leaving Antonio da Silveins there with six hundred men, of whom four hundred were badly armed and the rest were not fighting men, among these were very few nobles. He took all the soldiers with him, leaving the fortress at great risk and at war with Cambay. From Goa he despatched Gaspar Pirez de Sao Payo to Bengal with men to aid the king there. He went as commander of nine vessels whose captains apart from himself were Antonio de Melo who now lives in Bucelas, Francisco de Barros de Payva, Manuel Mascarenhas, Cristovao de Ouría, Diogo Rabelo and others. He sent with this fleed the King of Bengal's Envoy, Vasco
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