_ 282 _ After attending to the carracks, D. Alvaro de Noronha applied himself to the defence of the fortress in the following way. He put captain Dom Francisco de Almeida, the son of Pedro de Almeida of Evora, on the Santo Andre bulwark, and he gave him two hundred and forty men. He stationed Gonçalo Guedes de Roberedo, a very energetic person, on the Santiago bulwark, overlooking the field of cannon fire, with one hundred and thirty soldiers. The captain chose the barbican bulwark for himself with a hundred men under his command. Along the enclosure wall running from this bulwark to that of Santo Andre, he put Aires Monis with fifty men. On the other curtain wall running to that of Santiago he put Manuel de Sousa, the brother of Fernão de Sousa de Castelo Branco, nicknamed the “Martinet”, with thirty men. On the seaward side he placed Antonio Correia an honourable knight and rich casado (whose daughter married D. Antonio de Noronha, later the captain of Cochin, about whom we have often spoken), and he gave him sixty men. On the bulwark in the middle was the alcaide-mor, a certain João Homem in the service of the Conde de Vimioso, with forty men. In the middle of the keep, above the store rooms were the king, his wife and children, the guazil and
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