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made of a flamingo’s “ upper jaw.” The Kafila got safe to Broach and 
Surat without further adventure or observation in our way of 
business. 
On the 26th of March, Della Valle was at Daman ; and beginning 
to be puzzled by the creeks of the Konkan, but “ Time and better 
observations ” 
enabled him afterwards to interpolate in his log-letter 
avery good account of them. At Daman he “first tasted at the 
(Jesuit) father rector’s table many strange Indian fruits * * and 
mee * * brought into Hast India from 
Brazil or New Spain, namely, Papaia, Casa or Cagiu, Giambo, Manga 
or Amba and Ananas. This list apparently refers to both the Indian ~ 
and imported fruit, and the Editor rather unnecessarily remarks that 
the mango is a native of India, and identifies the Giambo with 
Eugenia jambolana, the common jambul tree of our forests and 
roadsides. 
others which * were 
Della Valle’s previous remarks about the mango show that he 
needed no correction about it, but his first tasting it in a Portuguese 
convent at Daman on the 26th of March is very natural. Nowhere 
north of that was he likely to get an eatable mango so early, if, indeed, 
there was at that time a tolerable mango in all Gujarat, which may be 
doubted. There are but few gardens there now that produce such. 
The Giambo was probably a rose-apple (Z. jambos), for Della Valle 
could not be expected to find the harsh sloes of &. jambolana even 
“passably good.” The other three are all imported trees. 
Touching at almost every port on the coast, including the modern 
Bombay-Mahim, but not Bombay proper, our traveller got to Goa 
on the 8th of April, having made no observation on the way that 
can be noticed here, but a great many that would be very interesting 
matter for a more general review. 
Pietro Della Valle sailed from Goa on the 14th October, 1623, and 
got out of the river the next evening, sailing south coastwise. At 
“ Onor” he saw a spring which he calls “Ram tirt,’ and which is 
probably to be seen there still. ‘‘ The water was hot, to wit not cold,” 
and. “ within it are small fishes which use to bite such as come to swim 
there, yet without doing hurt because they are small.” Little fishes in 
many Indian waters do the like, to the great discomfort of an occa- 
sional “ Griffin.” 
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