_ 447 _ The king went to Dom Paio, who was in the fortress, and told him that he should keep the two hundred men that his father had given him for himself, with whom he would be as safe as with the Portuguese themselves, because they hated the Turks so much. Meanwhile, he would assume responsibility for guarding the city with his men, because he had learned that there were so few Turks that they would not dare to come ashore and even less would they be able to invest the city from the sea, because they had not brought ships capable of sustaining a long bombardment. However, although he could see that the city was well supplied and defended, Dom Paio was unable to relax or to trust those people completely. When on one occasion the king asked him for some Portuguese to escort his people through some dangerous passes, because they would be safer if our men were with them, he became so deeply suspicious of him and his followers that it was decided by common consent that it was not wise to trust the Moors, who in fact were enemies, since they could hold our soldiers captive, put them to death or hand them over to the Turks, at any time they wanted.
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