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described, which now presented a still more melancholy picture 

 of wretchedness and ruin. The churches, monasteries, prisons, 

 and inquisition were kept in repair; but the streets in general 

 exhibited only mouldering palaces and falling houses, depopu- 

 lated and silent! The governor, Don Frederic, no longer styled 

 viceroy, but captain general of India, was a nobleman of amiable 

 manners, and an accomplished gentleman: he entertained us in a 

 princely style at his palace, and formed in every respect a strik- 

 ing contrast to the courtiers by whom he was surrounded. 



Alternate land and sea breezes wafted us pleasantly from Goa 

 to Tellicherry. The diversified seenery in that part of the coast 

 has been described. In giving an account of a former voyage 

 from Bombay to Anjengo, I have, inadvertently mentioned that, 

 after leaving Mirzee and Barcelore, there was nothing worthy of 

 observation until we reached Fortified Island, a little to the north- 

 ward of Onore. Sir James Sibbald, for many years the English 

 resident at Onore, informs me that Mirzee (the Musiris of the 

 ancient Greeks) is situated twenty-two miles to the northward 

 of Onore. At spring tides large ships can sail over the bar, 

 at the entrance of the river, and remain in safety during the 

 monsoon. The Bombay-Merchant, a ship laden with military 

 stores for the nabob Hyder Ally, by the government of Bombay, 

 was in the month of May 176*4, on her passage from thence to 

 Mangulore, when the south-west moonsoon suddenly set in much 

 earlier than usual, with a most tremendous gale; had not the 

 commander determined, at all hazards, to run over Mirzee bar, 

 his vessel must have been lost. The East India company for 

 seventy years, had a large banksaul, or warehouse, at Mirzee, for 



