112 C. R. Wilson —Topography of the TTiiglt in the 1 Gth century. [No. 2, 
Between Betor and the sea De Barros gives the following topo¬ 
graphical details. On the west side the Damodar* enters the Ganges 
by three mouths forming two islands, and lower down the river Ganga 
just before its junction with the Ganges bifurcates and encloses a 
small delta; between the Ganga and the Damodar are Pisolta and 
Pisacoly. On the east side there are two tributaries answering ap¬ 
proximately to the northern mouths of the Damodar and the Ganga, and 
between these two tributaries lies Pacuculij. Pisolta is just above the 
point where the Ganga joins the Ganges, and in the first chapter 
of the ninth book of the first decad of the Da Asia we read that the 
“ Ganga discharges into the illustrious stream of the Ganges between 
the two places called Angeli and Pieliolda in about 22 degrees.” The 
Ganges and the Ganga are respectively the Hiigli and the Rupuarayan,f 
Angeli is Hijili, the coast land from the mouth of the Rupnarayan to 
near Jaleswar, and hence it becomes pretty clear that Picholda, which 
is wrongly spelt Pisolta in the map, is the same place as Picliuldoho, a 
small village and market on the north of the Rupnarayan, close to Fort 
Mornington Point.£ 
II. Having thus identified Betor and Picholda, it will be necessary 
for me, before going further, to deal with my second point, and consider, 
how far the map is the original work of De Barros, and how far it has 
been prepared by subsequent and inferior hands. And this is the more 
important because I think that De Barros was a much better informed 
authority than the writers who came after him, and who seem to borrow 
from De Barros often without understanding him. For instance Faria 
de Sousa, finding in the Da Asia the statement about the Ganga, which 
# The name is not given in the map, but there can be no doubt as to the identity 
of the river. 
f The Ganga is the Rupnarayan. Sir Henry Yule says, “ It is the Ganga of A. 
Hamilton; and is marked as “ The Ganges ” in Warren and Wood’s Survey which 
appears in the Filot of 1748, names arising from some old confusion not easily ex¬ 
plained. It is now known as the Rupnarain ” (see Hedges’ Diary , Yol. Ill, p. ccx.) 
J Since I wrote the above, Pandit Haraprasad Sastri has pointed out to me 
that Pichhalda is mentioned more than once in the Chaitanya Charitd. In Book II, 
Chapter 16, we read :— 
trrc ws n 
Wrl * 3 ? fTFC 1 
stk yiy ii 
And again:— 
vrmiK ^ ^ qr?; i 
Wri ti; wr ii 
