68 VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 



A European may take food in their houses and is quite welcome; 

 but every door is closed to the Carnatis, and other sig'ns of dis- 

 like are frequently given to them. They explain this circum- 

 stance here in this way, that some Europeans, in order to g-et 

 more friendly with the natives, have inspired them with a hatred, 

 ag-ainst their own nation, which is said to have g-iven rise to their 

 hostilities. 



Their houses are in many places, specially inland, worse 

 than those in the Carnatic, and one rarely meets a Pagoda built 

 of stone, and even these, compared with the Pagoda of Tauf- 

 chaukin, are wretched hovels. Many have the walls built of mud 

 and a roof of palm leaves. 



The sea was filled with a kind of mollusc, which seemed 

 to me to have a conical shape and to be of opal white colour ; 

 they hung downwards with their tops almost perpendicular, 

 thicker at the upper butt end, they seemed to be divided and 

 overgrown with short fibres, which were either flesh coloured or 

 brownish, ten of them were white. They were about as long as 

 a finger, and near the mouth they seemed to be thicker than a 

 swan's quill ; I could not catch any because the order to hoist 

 the anchor was given just at this time, I hope to obtain some 

 at the place we are going to. 



18. — We went on board again, the anchor was hoisted, we had 

 a fairly good wind, and the captain continued his course towards 

 another place, called Nahapur, which is situated about fifty Eng- 

 lish miles further north. Towards three o'clock we had a very 

 strong south-western wind together with some rain, and we were 

 brought to our anchorage towards 6 o'clock in the evening. We 

 cast our anchors about five English miles from the shore, the water 

 being three fathoms deep, and the ground being very muddy. 

 We were quite close to a sand-bank, which runs for some miles 

 into the sea. There is also the mouth of an arm of the river by 

 far bigger than the Kisna, called Ghodawetu, which also sends 

 red muddy water into the sea. It was too late to-day for going 

 ashore, but the captain sent a letter on shore, and early in the 

 morning the captain and I went on land, we were about two 

 hours on the sea, ere we reached shore, and there we found 

 palanquins already awaiting us, which were to take us to Made- 

 polam, a place situated fifteen miles inland. The first thing I 

 found on shore was the Paspalum I had seen near Masulipatam, 



