_ 304 _ for another 400 men who were still in the fortress, while the war against the Turks lasted. In addition, they would supply the fortress with everything that it needed. Extract In the time of the governor D. João de Castro, Luis Falcão was empowered to make peace with the King of Cambay, as some of the details of its terms were not properly formulated. When Garcia de Sá succeeded to the governorship, he sent D. Antonio Mendes de Castro as ambassador to the same King of Cambay concerning a curtain wall that he had built between the city and the fortress, which gave rise to the last siege that he imposed on Diu. The King now ordered Dom Antonio to re-examine the peace terms and, if it seemed to him that it would not be in his interests to argue in favor of all those matters about which doubts had been expressed, he should endeavor to amend everything that had been agreed and, as was fitting, to implement it for the greater security of the city and the better guarding and defense of the fortress, without appearing to break the peace accord. However, if it was seen that the terms were against his interests and that there was no adequate way for them to be stated and amended except by returning the matter to
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