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44 Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of 
44 the earth even unto the other; and thou shalt become an asto- 
44 nisinnent, a proverb, and a by-word, among all the nations, 
44 whither the Lord shall lead thee; if thou wilt not observe to do 
44 all the words of the law; that thou mayest fear this glorious and 
44 fearful name. The Lord thv God!” 
These meditations occupied my mind in many a moonlight 
walk, on the spot where this Jewish colony are now settled: they 
formed a part of my original letters from Cochin, and although in 
some respects they may appear foreign to the general subject, I 
was unwilling to suppress them. 
We sailed for Anjengo on the 1 7 1 L , passing near a sandy coast, 
covered with cocoa-nut trees: we had a transient view of the Dutch 
factories at Porca and Calliquilone , where they procure pepper and 
cassia, abundant in that part of Malabar: the next morning we 
arrived at Quilone , or Coulan , another Dutch settlement; it was 
formerly a large town, belonging to the Portugueze, with extensive 
fortifications; these are now destroyed; the churches are con- 
verted into warehouses, and the European inhabitants reduced to 
a factor, surgeon, and a small garrison: the natives are chiefly 
Roman catholic Christians. 
Quilone is six leagues from Anjengo; about half way we 
passed Ecldava , formerly a Danish factory; but at that time a 
country villa belonging to the English chief of Anjengo: it stands 
on the high bank of a river, commanding a view of the sea, and a 
pleasant country, covered with groves of cassia, and plantations of 
pepper. From thence to Anjengo the coast is hilly and romantic; 
especially about the red cliffs at Boccoli; where the women of 
