FROM THE EAST INDIAN CO. 73 



might finde games therein by buying them att the first hande, 

 bat must haue true servantes and men of good knowledge 

 beeing no doyt better cheape there then att Succadania. 



The Description of Badagatt or Tclingana. 



This country in tymes past was belonging to y e great 

 King Rama Raija who gaue it gouerment to a certen 

 Persion as also Caneam and Decam to two other Moores, 

 who murthering the said King made himself King beeing 

 called Cottobaxa, who sithence hath enlarged his dominions 

 to that of the Grand Mogor, Nisainxa adelxa and the 

 Kinges of Velur and Orixa and along the Sea Coast from 

 Montepeli to Cassincotta 



league with him 



might be made in the same mann 



Condytions which the Dutch haue, wh 



coming at Mesulpatani is easily learned, and to see howe 

 they would accomplish the said Contract and in this manner 

 those difficulties might bee prevented and a quiet and sure 

 Trade established, and although such an Ambassadge would 

 not cost lesse then 3000. Ks- yet such a somme must not bee 

 regarded, ffor in i'ewe years itt will come in three fould againe, 

 And if this freindlie Course should take no effect att all, but 

 that the Governours violence contynue and the King not 

 looke into itt, then to breake vpp and saue the Factory and 

 make sharpe warr vppon his Coast in such sort as itt might 

 coome to the Kinges eares, and that they should bee afraid 

 to put their heades out of the dores, which may bee done with 

 small force and little charge, sending to the King and shewing 

 him the reason of those proceedinges, ancl no doubt but the 

 King and Moore S wilbee glad to giue such priveledges as in 

 reason can desire, This course the Portihgalls att first tooke 

 and thereby not only obteyned large previllidges but had a 



R. A. Soc, No. 54, 1909. 



