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11 Ram. has : " Here are produced many and excellent fruits, 

 the mountains are covered with sweet and bitter oranges, of three or 

 four kinds of flavour, and some have the peel sweeter than the juice 

 and they are larger than Adam's apples; bitter-sweet lemons, some 

 large and others small, and very sweet ; and many other varieties of 

 fruits which are not found in our parts ; the trees are loaded with them 

 all the year, and there are always to be seen flowers and fruits ripe 

 and unripe." In Cast, this appears as : *« There are also many 

 sweet orange trees, and among them some that bear certain oranges, 

 the peel of which is as sweet as the pulp ; and there are also all the 

 thorny trees [i.e., lemons, limes, citrons, &c], and many others very 

 different from ours which yield divers fruits, and the whole forest 

 consists of these trees : in which moreover there are many sweet 

 herbs, as also basil, pellitory, and others." 



12 In Ram. this is expanded to : 4 ' There is also a very great abund- 

 ance of flesh of every kind, of divers animals and birds, all delicious, 

 and an equal abundance of fish, which are caught near the island." 



13 Cf. Varthema's statement in the extract supra, A 18. 



14 There should be a comma after " honey " : only the sugar came 

 from Bengal. 



15 Lisbon ed. adds " and dried." 



16 For the foregoing Cast, substitutes : " a great part of which 

 [forest] is of trees from which the cinnamon is got, which has a leaf 

 like laurels, and the bark is the cinnamon that comes hither, which is 

 obtained from the branches after they have been cut off and dried, 

 and this is done by the common people, who sell it for a very small 

 price." 



17 Lisbon ed. inserts " state and for." 



18 Lisbon ed. has " five." 



19 In the Lisbon ed. this reads : " No one may catch them except 

 the king," to which Ram. adds " who pays those that capture 

 them." For the whole passage Cast, substitutes: " and after they 

 are tame and understand, they are taken for sale to Malabar, Narsinga, 

 and Cambaya, and to other parts where they are highly esteemed for 

 war ; and they sell them by the number of cubits, which they measure 

 from the feet to the hips : and the cubit of those that are good and 

 skilful in war is valued at a thousand gold pardaos, and of the others at 

 six hundred and five hundred." 



20 Jargoons. 



21 In place of this last sentence Cast, has : * ' and thus he has 

 selected all, and formed thereof a great treasure, amongst which the 

 king who was reigning at this time was said to have a ruby a span 

 in length and of the size of an egg, quite clear without any flaw, and 

 giving as much light as a candle." Regarding this ruby cf. Andrea 

 Corsali's statement in the previous extract (C 20). 



22 In Ram. : " where are found a very great quantity of pearls 

 small and large, very fine, and some of them pear-shaped." 



23 A curious error for " Gael " originating in the wrong subscrip- 

 tion of a cedilla, thus : Cael — Gael — Sael. On Cael or Kayal see 

 supra, A 16, note 2 . 



24 Ram. has: ' ' they pay him a certain tribute for the license to 

 fish." Cast, in taking over the above makes some alterations and 

 additions, as may be seen from the following quotation : " In the 

 channel that runs between this island and the mainland, which is 

 eight and ten fathoms in depth, is fished a great quantity of aljofar, 

 large and small pearls, and twice a year the heathen people of Calecare 

 [Kilakarai], which is a city that lies near here, come to carry on that 

 fishery, at the time when the king throws open the fishery, and there 



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