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His army, who idolized the gallant youth, prevaled on liim to 

 reftore them to the grave. He then fent to the inhabitants of 

 Goa one of his muftachos as fecurity for the fum required. 

 They knew his rigid honor, and advanced the money. He died 

 at Goa^ in 1548, aged forty-eight. He had the confolation of 

 dying in the arms of the apoil:le of the Indies.^ Xavier. His 

 body was interred in that city ; but his bones were removed to 

 the convent at Bemjica, near Lijbon, beneath a monument^ 

 which records the acf^ions of his glorious life*. 



The great bay of Cambay^ the Barygazenus finus of the an- Bay of Cam^ 

 tients, now opens between Cape Dm and Cape St. 'John, on the ^^^' 

 oppofite fliore, diftant a hundred and eighty miles ; it runs far 

 inland towards the north, and ends with the river Af/Z'/>, the an- 

 tient Mais, Ca?nbay, once the capital of a kingdom of the fame Camray, 

 name, ftands on the weftern lide, near the bottom, in N. Lat.- 

 22° 20'. It is a vaft city, walle<# round with brick, and may be 

 called the mother of Surat, which it fupports by its various' 

 rich articles of comm.erce, ftiU confiderable, notwithftand" 

 ing the retreat of the fea near a mile and a half. Cmnbay 

 is a great manufacturing country, and furniflies the coarfe un- 

 bleached cloths, much in ufe in Perjia, Arabia, Egypt, and 

 AbeJJynia-, alfo blue pieces for the kime countries, and for the 

 Engli/Jo and Dutch trade in Guinea ; blue and white checks for 

 mantles in Arabia and Turky, fome coarfe, others enriched with 

 gold; white pieces woven at Barochia, called 5^^^J" ; muflins 

 with a gold itripe at each end, frr turbans; gauzes; mixed 

 Huffs of filk and cotton ; fliawls made of the Cacbemirian wool ; 

 befides immenfe bales of raw cotton, fent annu. '!v to Sirraty 

 Bengal, China, Perjia^ and Arabia, for their fe\'eral mnnufac- 



* Murphy's Travels inFvrtugal, p. 263, 273. 



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