_ 214 _ Chapter: 185 At this time in Diu there were many white Moors from the strait, all warriors. Before dying the King of Gambay had sent for them in order help him against the Portuguese. They arrived the previous April in the dress of merchants in order not to be recognized and carried their arms secretly. They took shelter with the other merchants and hid their arms there. When they saw the war that Khwaja Safar was waging on the Portuguese the desire to help him grew in them. Revealing themselves as mercenaries they began to incite the people of the city to rise against the Portuguese. With some at one end and others at the other they began to hold big meetings in the streets and squares. Soon Antonio da Silveira came on the scene accompanied by the best men from the fortress, all armed and he suddenly attacked the Moors capturing many of than searching the houses of the merchants he took as many arms as he could find and thus the mercenaries were disarmed. This done, because the city's only water was on the island he put guards on the passages to the mainland. In two bastions there he put two captains Goncalo Falcao son of João Falcao and Luis Rodrigues de Carvalho. In another passage called Palari the stationed Lopo de Sousa de Coutinho from Santarem in a galeota with
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