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CONQUEST OF THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY 231 titles of clothing which they were carrying, because there were no means of passing over the ford except by pieces of wood laid across one another. As soon as Afonso Dalboquerque had gathered the women and children of the Turks together, he ordered that they should receive proper attention and be safely kept; and on the second taking of this city he converted them to Christianity and married them to Portuguese men, as I shall show further on. Now that the great Afonso Dalboquerque was al- ready in possession of the city, he ordered that the captains of the ships of Cannanore should be called together, and then he gave them permission to depart, and made them accept a part of the spoils that had been taken there. And when these men had departed, he called Timoja, and told him he had information that there yet remained some Turks in the castle of Banda, and in other strongholds round about it; and as he was determined that there should not remain any of the seed of these people in the whole of the kingdom of Goa, he was desirous of ordering him to destroy those castles, and put them all to the sword; he would there- fore earnestly desire him to send his cousin with some fustas to show our people the entries to the rivers, for they did not know them. Timoja replied that he considered it a good plan to order the casting out of all the Turks from the island of Goa, and from the neighbouring places, for as long as they remained therein they would give much trouble; so he would make his cousin ready with the