A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels begun 1672 and finished 1681 : containing observations made of the moral, natural and artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.

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Title: A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels begun 1672 and finished 1681 : containing observations made of the moral, natural and artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.
Author: Fryer, John, d. 1733.
Publication: London :: Printed by R.R. for Ri. Chiswell ...,; 1698.
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CHAP. VI.

Views the Malabar and Canatick Coasts, up to Bombaim.

A Dark Night enlightned by Fish. The Dutch grasp all the Spice-Trade. How far 'tis possible. Cochin. We left the bad Weather, but not the Dutch Practices. Went ashore at Tanore. Their Wares. Their Houses mean. Their Nation di∣stinguished. The Nairoes. The Husband∣men. Their Men, how clad. Their Wo∣men. Manners and Religion. Hospitals for Cows. St. Thomas Christians. Coins current. The Pepper. Blackamore Pul∣len. Intensely cold a-nights. Latitude of Tanore. Calicut. The Portugal Fort overflowed. The Story of Calicut. Its condition since the Portugals left it. Coins. The right Ascent of the Sun to the Me∣ridian. Malabar Coast harbours Pyrates. Phalapatan. The King. Crocodiles in the River. Cutticony. Its Prospect. The Gentiles loth to resign it to the English. The Fort. Unsafe travelling without a Nairo. Naughtiness of their Women. Coins. We left Malabar Coast. Onor the first Land we touched on the Canatick Coast. The Protector of Canora went aboard our Fleet at Mirja. His obstreporous Musick. Our Lading. Carwar in the hands of Seva. The People partly Moors, partly Gentues. Goa. The Portugal Armado. Light-Houses. Rajapour. Choul. Bombaim.