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traded port of Calicut: ashore, the first house facing us was the 
English; near it were placed six small pieces, resounding our salutes 
at our entry: on the back side lay two great guns, dismounted, of 
brass; all that is extant of the Portugal town and castle, which 
ran out into the sea, where our ships now ride, near four miles, 
overflowed by water; nothing remaining of it, but what is taken 
upon chronicle. 
“ What is left of Calicut, is not equivalent to what might be 
expected from the gleaning of so many ages of traffic: for the city 
that stood upon stilts is tripped up; for down it is gone; and the 
temple, whose marble pillars durst compare with those of Agrippa’s 
in the Roman Pantheon, is topsy-turvy: and if any one that comes 
after me, make you believe it to be not above four miles in length, 
and in that not an house befitting a, Christian; here and there a 
mosque, and burying-places with tanks; a good long bazar with 
trash, and ripe fruit; another with opium, and spices of this coast; 
changers and jewellers; unfenced and rude in building; he tells 
you but the truth. Indeed it is pleasantly situated under trees; 
and is the holy see of the zamorine, or pope.” 
44 The country is enticing and beautiful, woody in the plain, 
up the country mountainous, where grows the pepper: it is a berry 
that is brought forth by a bind-weed, wedded to a tree, which it 
hugs as affectionately as the ivy does the oak; it is first green, 
when dried it is black, and husked white. Between this and Tel- 
licherry, hills of cardamoms do bound the sight: on the east a 
gravelly forest, with tall benty grass, offers, besides its taking look, 
diversity of game; as hares, wild boars, tigers, and elephants, 
which are dreaded by travellers; they striking all down before 
