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bably flood the Elancon emporium of Ptolomy. Marco Pohy 

 the celebrated traveller of the thirteenth century, vifited the 

 place in his journey through part of India. He calls this tradt 

 Le Royaume d'Eli, and Albulfeda, Ras Heiliy or the Cape of 

 Heili. Polo fays, it abounded with pepper, ginger, and other 

 fpices. He adds, that if a 'fhip happened to be driven into 

 their port by a tempeft, the king immediately confifcated it, 

 faying — *' You never intended to come here, but God and 

 " fortune difnofed it otherwife; fo we will profit of what 

 ** they have been pleafed to fend." 

 Cananore. Cananore ftand a little to the fonth of Mount DUla. In 1501 



it was vifited by Cabral, on an invitation from the monarch of 

 the place, w^ho treated him in the kindefl: and moft afFecflionate 

 manner. The Portuguefe obtained leave to eretl a fort near 

 the city, which w' as their firft and ufual ftep towards the enflav- 

 ing the natives. The friendly monarch died. The new king, 

 provoked by the barbarity of one Goes, who had taken an Ara- 

 bian fhip, fewed up the whole crew in the fails, and flung 

 them into the fea. Exafperated at this cruelty, the ruling 

 prince laid fiege to the fdrt. The garrifon were reduced to 

 the laft extremity by famine, when they were relieved, by the 

 fea flinging on lliore great quantities of fhrimps *. Tri/Jan de 

 Cunha arrived with his fleet, and relieved the garrifon. The 

 city afterwards was taken by the Portuguefe, who continued 

 maflers of it till it was belieged, in 1660, by the Dutch. 

 General Abeil- In December 1790, in the beginning of the campaign of that 

 year, againft 'Tippoo SultaUi Major-General Robert Abercromby 



* Oforioj i. p. 268. 



opened 



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