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ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



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from which the shipping is supplied. Nostra Senhora de la Cabo, a large 

 monastery, of a white appearance, fa situated on the summit of the blutV 

 point of land, about 2\ miles S. E. of Algoada, which forms the S. side of 

 the bay. The common anchorage is abreast Algoada Fort, the flagstaff 

 bearing about N., at half a mile distance from the shore. 



The bar at the entrance of the river is about two miles to the E. of 

 Algoada Point, having 16 or 18 feet on it at high water spring tides; but 

 the bottom about it being hard and rocky, and the channel winding and 

 intricate, a ship ought not to enter the river without a pilot. After the early 

 part of May, it is considered unsafe to remain at the anchorage in Ihe 

 road ; the Portuguese then send their large ships that cannot go into the 

 river, to Marmagon roads, 4- or 5 miles to the S. of Algoada Fort, where 

 they are sheltered from the S. W. monsoon, by mooring close under the 

 N. E. side of that peninsula. 



The city of Goa is situated on the N, side of an island about twelve 

 miles long and six broad, seven miles from the entrance of the river. The 

 city is large, the streets straight, the houses regularly built of stone, many 

 of them magnificent, but uninhabited. 



As a sunk rock off" Goa, on which a vessel struck in February 1 823, 

 is not in the Charts, it will be desirable to transcribe the particulars from the 

 log-book. — Standing to the N. in soundings, 6 fathoms and \ less 6, at 7. 

 30 P. M., the ship struck upon a rock, soundings from 6 to and 6 

 fathoms, soft mud. When the ship struck, Algoada Point bore N. | W. 

 Cabo Point E. by N. £ N. 



Trade. — The trade carried on by the Portuguese is very trifling, com- 

 pared with what it formerly was. There are seldom more than three ships 

 sent from Portugal to India in the year, and these generally proceed to the 

 British settlements, to complete their cargoes for Europe. 



The trade from Goa to China consists of one or two ships in the year, 

 which are called China ships ; these sail in November and December to Surat 

 and ports to the N M carrying China and European goods, and, returning 

 with cotton and other articles, call at Goa, to complete their cargoes for 

 China, and depart in March or April. The earnest of these ships returns in 

 October or November to the Coast of Malabar; the latest arrives generally 

 in January* They commence their trade at the most S. settlement, which 

 is Anjengo, from thence to Cochin, Calicut, Tellicherry, and Mangalorc, 

 and then to Goa. At all the above places they take pepper, cardamums, 

 cassia lignea, and other articles, which they resell at their N. settlements, 

 completing their whole voyage within the year. 



The coasting trade is considerable, which is carried on with the 



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