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is brackifh, bccaiife of the Tides that come up to it-, there is great Trading f'o™ 
thcre in Ci&iff/, becaufc, befides thofe that are made there , a great many 
are brought from St. Thomas, which are imich finer, and of better Colours J.om £/»;î. 
than thofe of the other parts of the Indies. Panptei, a 
Town, ^mangiiel 6 Lcag. and a half from Tchellapeli. Surchel-^ipentche , a Town, half a Leag. from jit/iev. 
a River. Gougelou j hag. from Sarchel. ^nendegu/r 4. Lea.g. {rom Gougelou. Penguetchpoul, zTown , 
S Leag. {vom j4uendeguir. Pamela, $ Leag. and a half fi'om Penguetch. Matcher, 4 Leag. from Pantela. §lufich- 
gna, a River. Ovir 4 Leag. from Matcher. Milmol^ 4 Leag. from Ovir. GoroHpet^ z Leag. from Milmol. Mafti- 
lifatan, half a Leag. from Goroupet. , 
The Coaft is excellent, and therefore Ships come thither from all Nati- 
ons, and go from thence into all Countries. I faw there Cochmchinefe, Men 
of Siam, Fcgu, and of many other Kingdoms of the Eaft. 
The Countrev of Mafulipatan (as all the reft of the Coaft)is fo full ofjdq- idolaters, 
laters, and the Pagods fo full of the lafcivious Figures of Monfters , that Figures of 
one cannot enter them without horrour -, it is exceeding fruitful, and Pro- Monfters. 
vifions are very cheap there. The people of our Cara'van had a Sheep for 
Twelve pence, a Partridge for a Half penny, and a Fowl for lefs than Two 
pence j it is the fame ajmoft all over the coaft of Core??2r2«if/, wherein there The extent of 
is no more common])^ comprehended but what reaches from the Cape of 
Negapatan to the Cape of Mafulipatan : But fomeAuthors carry it flirther,and ' • 
will have it to reach from Cape Comory to the Weftern mouth of the Ganges ^ 
though others make it to end at the Cape , which the Vortuguefi call Das The Cape Das 
Talmas. Palmas. 
There are feveral Towns on this Coaft, fome of which are good , and 
amongft others Negapatan^ which lyes in the Latitude of twelve degrees ^^f^^^^^^' 
Trangabar^ which is almoft in the fame Latitude -, Meltapour or St. Thomas , Mehipour'or 
which lyes in the heighth of thirteen degrees and a half, and which the st. Thomas. . 
Moors (with the afliftance of the Dutch) took back from the Portnguefe in the 
year One thoufand fix hundred fixty two. 
The Kingdom of GolconJa reaches not above two Leagues beyond St.Thomas. 
They f-.y that St.Thomas fuffered Martyrdom in that Town which bears his . 
name -, n,r St. Thomas-zhcy make Lime of fuch Shells as are brought from St. 
•M'ichaelin Normandy, and for that end they burn them with Hogsdung. 
The Sm::ll-pox is very frequent in that Countrey \ but there is another 
more violent Diilemper that commonly commits greater ravage there, It is 
called ^-èery»,and only feizes Children -, it is an inflammation of the Tongue Akeron,z di- 
and Mouth, proceeding from too "reatheat; their Parents are careful ftemper. 
to cool them from time to time with Herbs that arc good againft that Dif- 
eafe , for otherwife it feizes the Guts, reaches to the Fundament, and kills 
■ the Child. There are many to the South of St. Thomas ^ who are that 
Sovereigns : 'The Naique ot Madura is one -, he of Tangiour is at prefcnt a Vaf' Sovereigns, 
fal to the King oï l^tz^tapour. JV<j!^.^«e properly fignifiesa Captain \ hereto- 
fore they were Governours of Places , and Officers of the King -, but ha^ 
iving Revelled, they made themfclves Sovereigns. 
^ Foltacate is to the North of St. Thomas , and the FatSbory (which the Dutch PoUacate. 
2'have eftabiiilied there) is one of the beft they have in the Indies^ by reafon 
" of theCorton-cloaths,of which they have great' Ware-houfcs full there. At 
PoUacate they refine the Salt-Petre which they bring from Bengala^ and make ^^^^-Petre. 
the Gun-powder, with which they furnifh their other Fa£lories -, they re- 
fipxC the Salt-Fetre that they fend to Europe in Batauia. The Governour of 
-Gueldria\ which is the Fort PoUacate , has of the Dutch fifty Crowns a Gueldria. 
month Pay , with fifty Crowns more for his Table , Provifions of Wine 
and Oyl , and his Cloaths, which he can take when he pleafes out of the 
Companies W are-houfes. The current Money at PoUacate , are Roupies and 
Pagods^ which are there worth foLir Roupies, that is almoft fix Fre»fj& Li- 
"vres; they have Fanons alfo which arefmall pieces, half Gold and half Sil- Fa7iKts,Uomy. 
ver -, they have the fame Stamp as the Pagods have -, fix and a half of them 
(with half a Quarter-piece) make a 2?o«pie , and fix and twenty and a half a 
Tagod: They have alfo Grtz-eri , which are fmalj Copper-pieces , as big as G/ïî^^/-, Money, 
a Fanon, forty of which go to a Fanon -, and the Dutch at prefent Coin all 
thefe pieces of Money. P % Their 
