Part III. Travels into the INDIES. 87 
THE 
THIRD PART 
O F T H E 
TRAVELS 
O F 
Mr. de Thevenot 
BOOK II. 
Of the INDIES. 
C H A P. I. 
0/Decan and Mâhhax. 
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Êcan heretofore a mofl: powerful Kingdom, if one may be- Deean hath 
Ikvethe Indians J it confined of all the Countries that are in been a great 
that great Tongue of Land , which is betwixt the Gulfs of^'^S*^"™' 
Carnbaye and Bengala , all obeyed the fame King^ ^ nay, atid the 
Provinces of Balagate^ Teîenga and Baglana, which are towards 
the North, were comprehended within it, fo that it may be faid, that at 
that time there was no King in the Indies more powerful than the King of 
Decan -, but that Kingdom in procefs of time hath been often difmembred 5 jj^^ Arrival of 
and in the beginning of the laft Age , ( when the Portugaefi made Conqiiefts the Portugueji 
therein) it was divided into many Provinces, for thev found there the Kings m the indies. 
of Calecut, Cochin^Cananor and Coulam upon the Coaft of Malabar. Another 
King Reigned at Narjivgue, there were fomeCommon-wealtlis in it alfo-, and 
the Dominions of him (who was called King of Decan ) reached no further 
than from the limits of the Kingdom of Camhaye or Guz,erat , to the borders 
of the principality of Goa^ which did not belong to him neither. 
Calecut was the firfl: place of the Indies^ which the Vortuguefe difcovered Cakcut, 
in the year One thoufand four hundred and ninety eight , under the con- 
dud: of P^afco de Gama. The King of Calecut , who at firfl: received them 
friendly, would at length, have aefl:royedthem, at the infl:igation of Ara- 
bian Merchants, and the greateft Wars they had in the Indies^ was againft 
N that 
