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near the gateway. Esta casa se fez em louvor de nosso Sor e do Bema- 

 veturado Samart°, porque em se v dia deshara tou o Gor Do Jo 



de Crastro todo o poder de 



1-Eei de Cabaia q' tinha cere 



ada esta fortaleza e no mes mo dia per forQa darmas Iho tomou a sua 

 nobre cidade e il Iha de Dio 1546. 



In the centre are the arms of Castro. 



Entering the body of the fortress, we find ourselves in a small square 

 with the ruins of a church on the left, the old palace or Grovernment -House 

 and the Prison on the right, and some other Grovernment offices in front. 



I believe the church is that of the Misericordia, which appears to have 

 served as the hospital. This was the church in which the Portuguese heard 

 mass and confessed, before marching out to attack the Muhammadans. 



All these buildings bear numerous inscriptions, two on the palace, dated 

 1612 and 1647 ; two on the ruined church, dated 1542 and 1765 ; one on the 

 prison, dated 1604 ; and one in Latin dated 1702 over the gateway, on the 

 inner side. 



Turning to the right and passing the palace, we reach the double line 

 of bastions facing the cit}'. Those in the outer line are named respectively 

 after St. Domingo, St. Nicholas, and St. Philip ; those in the inner line are 

 called the Round Bastion, Menagem, Cavalleiro, and Santiago. Of these, 

 Santiago is the only name that has come down from the second siege. It 

 is at the end of the ditch towards the open sea. This, then called the 

 Tower of Santiago, was one of the points of attack during the second siege. 

 Below it is a chapel named after the same saint. The chapel has been re- 

 built several times, but it occupies the same site as during the siege and 

 appears to be of the same size and form as then. The English turned it 

 into a godown during their occupation of Diu at the beginning of the pre- 

 sent century. The Baluarte Cavalleiro is, as its name implies, the highest 

 of the bastions, that on which the flag Is hoisted. The present bastion 

 bears date 1636. During the siege, this site was occupied by tlie bastion 

 of St. Thomas, which was frequently assaulted and for some time held by . 

 the enemy. The bastion of St. John, if I understand the narratives aright, 

 must have been somewhere between Cavalleiro and Menagem. It was 

 blown up during the siege by a mine, which caused the death of sixty of the 

 defenders among whom was Fernando de Castro, one of the sons of the 

 Viceroy. 



Menagem appears to occupy the place of the " Torre do lugar da por- 

 ta," and the round bastion facing the barbour, that of the Baluarte Santia- 

 go. This Baluarte Santiago must not be confounded with the tower of 

 Santiago, which we have already described as near the chapel of tlie same 

 name at the other extremity of the ditch towards the open sea. Tlie above 



