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EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



Pagoda, dedi- 



■CATED TO MOiV- 

 KIE5. 



BiMLIPATA.M. 



Chicacole. 



Calingapa- 



TAM. 



Ganjam. 



IndianPriapl's. 



ing the muzzle of his piece ftill at his breaft, and one of the 

 Nabob's fervants ftanding all the while behind Mr. Holden with 

 a dagger's point clofe to his back ; fo they had a conference of 

 half an hour long in thofe lingular circumftances, and then the 

 Nabob thought fit to retire, full of wonder and admiration of fo 

 daring a courage. 



Near the town, on a little mountain, is a Pagoda dedicated to 

 the worfhip of Monkies, of which many hundreds are bred 

 here; they are nouriflied by the priefts with boiled rice and 

 ether food ; they regularly affemble at meal time, and after- 

 wards diiperfe. This refpe6l is doubtlefsly paid to thefe fan- 

 taftic animals in memory of the famous Ape god. 



Bimlipatatn is a fmall Dutch facflory. About forty miles far- 

 ther ftands CbicacolCf the antient Cocala, and former capital of 

 the Circar, and refidence of the Rajah. A little farther ftands 

 Ca/mgapafam, remarkable for retaining the antient name of the 

 people, the Calingcz ; and poflibly it might have been the capi- 

 tal, and poffibly the place at which the elephants were landed, 

 as jElian relates, from the Ifle of Ceylon^ and fold to the king of 

 the country, which was called Parthalis, fee vol. i. p. 185. 

 Pliny fays, that monarch had always feven hundred ready to 

 march at an hour's warning. Ganjatn^ in Lat. 19° 22 , is rich in 

 rice and fugar-canes, and in Hamilton's time much fugar, 

 both white and brown, was made in the neighborhood ; which 

 produces alio bees-wax and fticlac, and tolerably good iron : 

 there are befides fevcral kinds of cotton manufadtures. 



Here is a Pagoda to the hidian Priapus, their god Gopaljami- 

 The obfcene deity is reprefented both in fculpture and painting 



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