_ 305 _ the state in which it was before the peace agreement, and if the King of Cambay did not want the peace conditions to be honest and sincere, they should revert to continuing the war that they had been waging against him before. The King had already been informed some time previously from Bassein that he ought to prepare a great many plans for any need or occurrence that might befall India, since it had such fertile and abundant lands that it could certainly sustain six thousand men. Consequently, the King commended Garcia de Sá's care in writing to him about building a strong enough force there to dissipate whatever fear they might have of the enemy, since they had powerful neighbors. Although it seemed to His Highness that this work should already be well advanced, according to the urgency that Garcia de Sá said that he had given it, nevertheless, because it was of such importance to the State of India, he commanded and strongly recommended to D. Antonio that he should attempt to consolidate what he had found started, and if he considered that by wintering there, he would not put other matters of greater importance in jeopardy, he should do so, in order to continue the work better, but mainly to go to the relief of Diu.
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