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230 ALBUQUERQUE ON GOA AND MALABAR ence, no one should touch a single thing belonging either to the Moors or to the Hindus that were in Goa, but all should treat them as vassals of his lord, the King of Portugal. As soon as this was over, he proceeded to inspect the fortress and the palace of the Qabaio, which was all made with joinery work, and had gardens and pools of water within it. And thence he went on to some large arsenals, wherein he found many supplies, a great quan- tity of powder, and many materials for making it, and many weapons for the men, both infantry and cavalry, and a very large quantity of merchandise, and, in some stables of large size, one hundred and sixty horses; and in divers parts of the city there were captured forty large field guns and fifty-five howitzers and of other lesser kinds of artillery a great quantity, and many other things which I do not write of, so that I may not tire the reader. To the shore there were moored forty ships, large and small, and sixteen fustas; and there was also there a great supply of ropes and cordage, and boltwork, and everything else that was necessary for them. And there, too, Afonso Dalboquerque found all the women and children of the Turks and Rumes, whom they could not carry with them, by reason of the haste they made in fleeing away with Milique Qufegurgij. For when this man arrived at the pass of Gondali, intending to cross over to the mainland, so great was the thronging haste that many fugitives were suffo- cated in the river and others lost their horses and quan-