22 HISTORICAL REMARKS ON 



XVII. The war thus continued till the Portuguefe, 

 who had been originally permitted to conftruct forts at 

 Cochin and Cannanore, obliged the Zamorin to admit 

 of their erecting one alfo at Calicut. 



XVIII. They had alfo made thcmfclves matters of 

 Goa from the Adel Sahi dynafty of the Bejapocr Kings 

 in Decan ; nor could any of the (hips of the Mahom- 

 medans fail in fafcty to either gulph, without being 

 furnifhed with Chriftianpaffes. 



XIX. In the Hejira year 931, anfwering to A. D. 



1524-5, the Mahommedans appear, by Zeirreddien's 

 narrative, to have (countenanced, no doubt, and pro- 

 bably actively aflifted, by their friend the Zamorin) 

 been engaged in a barbarous war, or attack, on the 

 Jews of Cranganere> many of whom our author ac- 

 knowledges their having put to death without mercy ; 

 burning and deftroying, at the fame time, their houfes 

 and fynagogues, from which devaluation they returned, 

 and enabled their great protector, the Zamorin, to ex- 

 pel, in the courfe of the following year, the Portuguefe 

 from Calicut. 



XX. But the latter fhortly afterwards re-eftablifhed 

 themfelves in the vicinity of that capital, and were 

 even permitted to build a fort within a few miles of it, 

 at a place called Shaliaut, of which they are related to 

 have retained pofTellion for upwards of thirty years, and 

 till, in or about the year 1571, they were, after a long 

 fiege, compelled to capitulate ; whereupon the Zamo- 

 rin is dated by Nizameddien to have fo completely 

 demoii fiicd their fortrefs, as not to leave one ftone 

 of it Handing on another. 



XXI. The Portuguefe proved, however, more per- 

 manently fuccefsful in an acquifition they made in the 

 province or (at that time) kingdom of Guzerat ; where, 



according 



