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price demanded for the mangos. The mangos of Gujarat were well 
flavoured, though small ; those of Balaghat were larger and delicious, 
especially those of Chacana (Chakan), and Quidar (Chandor ?), Madan- 
ager (Ahmednagar), Dultabado (Daulatabad) ; those of Eengal, Pegu, 
and Malacca were also very good. Garcia says he had a tree in his 
island of Bombay {see Colloquy xxir.) which yielded two crops of 
fruit, one early in the year and another in May. 
Parenthetically he mentions that the orange and its allies in India 
were better than those of Portugal. 
The Colloquy contains an account of the Banians and Brahmins, 
and the well-known hospitals for sick animals in Cambay. Eeference 
is made to the often confusing fact that the term India was frequently 
applied by the Ancients to Ethiopia {i.e. Africa). Garcia explains 
the origin, and defines the proper limits of India. There is also a 
curious discussion as to the origin of the term Far angi used in the East 
for Europeans. 
[Eeferences. — Clusius {Acosta), p. 68; Bontius and Fiso, lib. vi., 
cap. v., p. 94 ; Zinschoten, ii., pp. 23-26 ; Fhory, p. 226.] 
COLLOQUY XXXY. 
Da MaegaeitAj ou Aljofae, e do Chanco ; donde se fuz o que chamamos 
Madeepeeola. 
[Of the pearl or seed pearl, and of the shell of which is made what 
we call mother-of-pearl.] 
Called peria in Spanish, and perola in Portuguese, the small kind 
being called aljofar in both languages (from the Arabic al jauhar ?) ; 
unio in Latin for the large, and magarita for the small ; lulu in Arabic ; 
mote in Persia and India ; motu in Malabar. 
He says perla and perola are from the Latin prefero or preferes, 
because it has the pre-eminence ; unio because it is unique. He 
derives the Arabic name from Julfar, near the Strait of Hormuz, a place 
where it is found, not as above, from jauhar, jewel, which is now 
the commonly given though perhaps less correct derivation. 
He mentions the principal localities in the Persian Gulf and o:ffi the 
coast of Ceylon where pearls are obtained. He relates that the King 
of Portugal spent more than the profits of the Ceylon fishery on the 
support of over 50,000 Christians. 
