_ 215 _ twenty-five musketeers and as many more in a barge and two fustas. The passage at the end of the island was guarded by Antonio de Viga, the factor Francisco Henriquez the Customs House treasurer Francisco de Gouvea, the clerks Francisco Foreiro and Jorge Barbosa of Quimbra and Francisco Gouvea chief sea captain at Diu, Miguel Vaz and Pantaliao Pereira kept a general watch in three catures patrolling the passages by night and day. Whilst Khwaja Safar's wound was being healed the Moore did not make any attack and Antonio da Silveira ordered the completion of the bastion to the Turkish quarter. It had a height of forty spans as did the building next to it. For this work he sent Francisco Pacheco with seventy-men. Nevertheless, he was not able to dig a protective ditch before this bastion which was the cause of its being taken later. The cistern at the fortress was also finished and whilst it was being made ready it was filled with water which took five thousand casks, making the fortress well supplied with water. Chapter: 186 Although Khwaja Safar's wound had healed, he and Ali Khan soon set up their camp on the mainland behind
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