and cables, from the coir, or luisk of the cocoa-nut, a principal 
article of trade at Anjengo; where they also manufactured some 
common cotton cloth; but in the kingdom of Travencore were 
various and extensive manufactures of that article, which in every 
respect rivalled the long-cloth of the Carnatic. The English gentle- 
men traded in cassia, but the Company had the exclusive purchase 
and exportation of pepper. Among the Anjengo manufactures 
may be reckoned the trunks, travelling-cases, and camp-baskets, 
composed of cane-work, covered by a composition of quick-lime 
and butter-milk, mingled with a black powder, prepared from the 
burnt shells of cocoa-nuts: this is afterwards repeatedly varnished 
with the juice of a tree, common in Travencore, until it acquires a 
polished solidity capable of resisting the weather: two or three 
families excelled in gold and silver fillagree work, which they exe- 
cuted with the simplest implements; and imitated silver utensils of 
the best English fashion, with great facility and neatness. 
I do not immediately recollect the Abbe Ray nabs rhapsody at 
Anjengo: it implies, that however insignificant the settlement may 
be in itself, it will be for ever celebrated as the birth-place of his 
and Sterne’s Eliza; a lady with whom I had the pleasure of being 
acquainted at Bombay; whose refined taste and elegant accom- 
plishments require no encomiums from my pen. But it is, perhaps, 
not so generally known, that Anjengo gave birth to Robert Qrme; 
a writer who has frequently been denominated the British Thucy- 
dides, and the Father of Oriental History; a man, as his epitaph 
modestly records, endeared to his friends by the gentleness of his 
manners; and respected by the public as the elegant historian of 
the military transactions of the British nation in India: a man, 
