24 HISTORICAL REMARKS ON 



<c reared fortreiTes in Hurmuz, (Ormus,) Saket, Diu 

 " Mehel, and in Sumatra, and at Malacca, and Mil- 

 " koop - } and at Mylatoor, and Nagputtun, and Aju- 

 <f ram, and in the ports of'Shoulmundul, (Coroman- 

 " del,) with many alfo in thofe of Ceylon. They na- 

 " vigated alfo as far as China ; and their commerce 

 u extended throughout all thefe and other ports ; and 

 (c the Mahommedan merchants funk under their fu- 

 <c perior influence, and became obedient to them and 

 " their fervants ; having no longer any power to trade 

 <c themfelves, unlefs in fuch articles as the Portuguefe 

 " did not much like to deal in : nor requires it to be 

 " fuggefted, that their choice fell upon thofe commo- 

 « c dities that yielded the largeft profit ; all which they 

 ic exclufively referved, without allowing any one elfe 

 " to trade therein." 



XXIV. The traveller, C^sar Fredericks, hav- 

 ing been on the Malabar coaft about the time that 

 Zeirreddien's hiftory clofes, it may tend to contrail the 

 preceding ftate of fads according to our Mahcrnme- 

 dan author's view of them, to fubjoin his Chriftian co- 

 temporary's account of fome of the fame circum- 

 llances. 



XXV. Treating of Barcelore, a town on the 

 northern part of the Malabar coaft, Fredericks con- 

 tinues, (in the words of his old Englifh tranflator,) 

 " and from thence you (hall go to a city called Cana- 

 cc nore, which is a harquebufh-fhot diftant from the 

 <f chiefeft city that the King of Cananore hath in his 

 " kingdom, being a King of the Gentiles-, and he and 

 " his are very naughty and malicious people: always 

 " having delight to be in war with the Portugals j and 

 " when they are in peace^git is for their intereft to let 

 " their merchandize pafs. From Cananore you go to 

 " Cranganore, which is another fmall fort of the Por- 

 " tugals, in the land of the King of Cranganore, 

 c< which is another King of the Gentiles, and a coun- 

 " try of fmall importance, and of an hundred and 



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