By this time the great Afonso Dalboquerque perceived that the Hidalcão was determined to enter into the Island of Goa against him, without being deterred by any fear of the fleet that was riding in the river with its large number of soldiers and its artillery; yet he felt sure that this enterprise would never have been attempted had it not been that the Hidalcão was induced so to act by the intelligence which the Moors of the city had conveyed to him, according to the information which João Machado had given him. And as he had now some suspicion of certain native Moors of noble race, who were in correspondence with some of their relatives in the Hidalcã's camp, as soon as he arrived at the city he gave orders that they should be punished according to their deserts. And being very anxious about the security of the pass of Augij, on account of his suspicions concerning the men commanded by Timoja, he gave orders to his nephew, D. Antonio de Noronha, who was chief captain of the fleet in the river, to take up his station at that pass and keep very close watch over it.