The morning of the day following that on which this council had been held, which was the twenty-eighth of the month of February, in the year'10, the great Afonso Dalboquerque ordered D. Antonio de Noronha, with certain pilots, to sound the bar, and Timoja to accompany them with two watch-boats. And they found two fathoms and a half depth at low water, and three at high water. When Dom Antonio had taken the soundings of the bar he returned and related to him what he had found. The captain of the city was fearful lest our men should capture one of the earthworks which were placed inside the bar when he saw them in progress of taking soundings, he therefore gave orders with great diligence to provide them with infantry and cavalry, and large and small pieces of artillery. And, because the principal of these fortifications was the tower of Pangij, which commanded the entrance of the bar, he sent a captain thither and ordered it to be reinforced with everything that was required for its defence.