No sooner had the great Afonso Dalboquerque obtained complete information respecting the affairs of Goa, than he began at once to turn his attention to the fortification of the city, with the determination of repairing it, and strengthening his position therein, in order to be able to rely on the assistance it would give him in his trouble. And his first operation was upon the foundations and walls, with many people of the land who laboured at the work; and the captains with their men had their hours of work according as it came by turn to them, and so the work of fortification progressed with great rapidity by reason of the fear he had lest the Hidalãco should come up against him, and there he stood all day long, and at night slept with his clothes on upon a couch. And within the fortress he ordered them to lay the foundations of some very large stone rooms, in order that in them he might collect every year large quantities of corn and rice, that from these might be victualled all the other fortresses and all the fleets of India, making preparations that there all the business of India should be carried on, according to what he saw in the arrangement and situation of the city.