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An Exa£t Defcription of the Coafts 
of Malabar and Coromandel in the 
Eaft-Indies. 
C H A P. L 
The Divifion ancL Limits of the Indies. The Author^ s purpofe in the enfuing 
TreAtife, A Defcriftion of Cambaja a^d Suratte, The Treaty mth the 
Great Mogul, hy Mr, Van Teylingen. 
Ihe Limits 
# the In- 
dies. 
HE main Defign of the en- 
fuing Treatife being to give 
an exad Account of the Indies, 
as far as is come to our know- 
ledge either by our own Ex- 
perience, or the conllant Converfation 
with People of unqueflionable Credit, viz.. 
the Coafts of Malabar and Coromandel^ 
together with the Ifle of Ceylon^ and 
places thereunto belonging ; we thought 
it not beyond our fcope to infert the true 
Limits and Divilion of the whole 
whereby the Reader ( together with the 
annexed Map) may form to himfelf the 
more clear Idea of the Situation of thefe 
Places. 
India therefore borders to the Weft 
upon the River Jndiu^ towards the Ara- 
bian Sea , to the North it is inclofed by 
the Mount Taurus^ on the Eaft-fide by the 
vafl: Eajlern Ocean, and to the South by 
the Indian Sea. India was antiently di- 
vided into two Parts by the River Ganges 
thence the more Eaftern Part was call'd 
India beyond the Ganges^ and the Weftern 
Part India, on this fide of the Ganges, 
now known by the Name of Indoftan and 
according to the opinion of fome Au- 
thors, is the fame mention'd in the Scrip- 
ture by the Name of Havila. 
India is befides this divided into feve- 
ral Kingdoms and Provinces, to wit. 
The Empire of the Great Mogul, Decan^ 
Malabar^ Coromandel, Crika, Bcngale, Pa- 
gUj Siam and Cambodia, befides the Mai- 
dive Ijles ( of which there is a vaft num- 
ber) the IHands of Ceylon (of which 
in the fecond Book ) of Sumatra, Borneo, 
Celebes y Amhoina, Banda^ and the Moluc- 
que IJles, viz. Termate, Machian, Bachian, 
Tidor, Mottr, Potbacker, and divers others. 
As it is not ray Intention to treat of 
the whole IndieSy but to confine ray felf The Au- 
to thofe parts I have for the moft part ^^'^r's in* 
feen my felf, and to give you a relation 
of fuch remarkable Tranfadions both of 
Peace and War as have happen'd there ; 
fo I will begin with the Kingdom of 
Cambaja, and its Capital City having the 
fame Name, and end with Bimilipatam 
upon the Coaft of Orixa, bordering upon 
Bengals. 
Cambaja is 3 different Province from 37,^ p^^, 
Gufuratte, [\tViatQ at 11 deg. of Northern vince of 
Latitude ; it has got its Name from its Cambaja. 
Capital City nam'd Cambaja, (formerly 
the Indian Cayrus) feated at the mouth 
of the River Indus (or Sandus} known 77;e Rivnr 
by different Names among divers Na- Indus was 
tions: it rifes among the Mountains o^^™''^^^-/ 
Paramifus, and being augmented by at gg^^^j 
leaft nineteen other Rivers ( among vv hich and Pan- 
are the Hydafpes and Hypa/js, whither gab, from 
Alexander the Great carried his Arms ) '^^ P"^^ 
it falls by feven different Channels, or ^''^"f^^^^ 
as fome will have it by five, into the 
Sea; two of which pafs through and 
exonerate themfelves into the Sea in 
this Kingdom of Cambaja. It borders 
to the Eait upon the Country of Alandoa, 
to the Weft upon the Country of the 
Nautakers or Gedroficrs, to the North it The Limits 
has the Kingdoms of Sanga and Dulcinga, ^nd Fo-ti- 
and to the South that of Decan. It is ^j!^' f. 
one of the moft fruitful Provinces of the ^^"^^^^^^ 
Indies, which furniflies the circumjacent 
places with Corn, Wheat, Rice, Peafe, 
Butter, Oil, and divers other Frovidons, 
The Inhabitancs are generally either Gti- 
furattiens or Benjans, bemg much addict- 
ed to TrafKck, and very quick in their 
dealings. They make here the belt Ca- 
lico's of all forts-, and the Country a- 
bounds io lacJigo, Granates, Hyacinths, 
