No sooner was this interview concluded that the great Afonso Dalboquerque held with his captains concerning the approach of the Hidalcão, than he remounted upon his horse, with as many people as he could gather together, and made an inspection of all the passes of the island, in order to provide them with everything that was required. And in Benastarim he placed Garcia de Sousa with a hundred Portuguese soldiers, and six horse-soldiers, and four pieces of artillery and gunners to man them, and impressed strongly upon him the need of taking care to cause them to search everybody who passed over to the mainland, lest they carried with them any letters of advice from the Moors in Goa to those in the camp of the Hidalcão; and thence he proceeded to Old Goa, and therein he placed Jorge da Cunha with sixty cavalry soldiers, under orders to hasten to the defence of the other passes if need should arise; and at the pass of Augij he stationed Timoja's cousin and Mirale, with his own company; and at that of Gondalij he placed Francisco Pereira and Francisco de Sousa Mancias, with at housand native soldiers; and in the dry pass he left Jorge Fogaça, with twenty of our men and twenty native soldiers; and in that of Agacij D. Jeronymo de Lima, with forty Portuguese soldiers and a number of natives.