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A Twelve Monttis Voyage
began to drive the Waves with a great surf upon the Shore; insomuch
' that our Men could not carry me to the Pinnace, riding at the Grap-
ling without j wherefore hiring a Canoo, the Blacks played the Cha-
ron, and I narrowly escaped with rny Life (being oversctji finding
by sad 'Experience, that Cold Nights assirc-t even in these Kot Coun-
tries, as sensibly as under the Frozen Bear: Leaving off to wonder ac
the Natives quivering and quaking after Sun-sct, wrapping them-
selves in a Cemfy, or Hair-cloath, and the better sort with Quilts,
and making good Fires: For being well drenched in the Sea,the Wind
blowing very high, I was ahnoir. nummed to de'ath before .1 could
reach the Ship.' The reason of this Coolness anights is because
the Rains have lately cooled the Air as well as Earth, which also may
be ascribed to the SunVEcIiptick distance, as well as the length of
the Nights, which are but little longer than the Days; but chiefly
to the soakingMists bedewing the Earth after Sun-ser.
Tanore lies in 10 deg. 30 mio. North Latitude.
Having taken in what Bales of Pepper this Place assorded; we
weighed by Two in the Morning, and by Four in the Afternoon An-
chored against that Anciently Traded Port of Calicut, in the Lati-
tude of 11 deg. 30 min. North.
As
The Portugal
Fort over-
ssowed.
Of Calicut.
Shore the flrst House facing us was the Etigtijh; near it were
placed six smah Pieces, resounding our Salutes at our
Entry.
On the back-side lay two great Guns, dtsmounted, of Brass, all
that is extant of the Portugal Town and'Gistfe (which ran out as far
into the Sea as our Ships now ride, near'four Miles) overssowed by
Water; nothing remaining of it but only what is taken upon Chro-
nicle.
The Story of What is also left of Calicut, is not equivalent to what might be
uiitm. expired from the gleaning of so many Ages'of Traffick; unless, as
Antiquaries esteem, inostof those things arc Moth-eaten by Time,
which Vermin has "been plaguy pernicious here : For the City that
slood upon Stilts, is tripped up, for down it is gone ; and theTem-
pie, whole 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 besitting a ChriOhn ; here and there a
Mosque, and Burying Places with Tanks: A good longBtxzar with
Trassi, and Ripe Fruit; another with Opium, and Spices os this Ccast j
Changers and Jewellers, unsenced and rude in Building; he tells
you but the truth. Indeed it is pleasantly situated under Trees, and
ic is the Holy See of their Zamerbin or Pope.
Its Condition The Citizens are urbane, being trained up to Commerce ; but the
since the p*r- Trade gone to Goa, along with the Portugal;; who at their sirst ar-
rnja.'f lest it. rival into this Bay, found more Ships by joo than we did, without
either Chart or Compass, who most of them tranlported their Com-
modities to the Red Sea, along the Coasts; or to the Gulph of Per-
/sa;
A Twelve Monttis Voyage
began to drive the Waves with a great surf upon the Shore; insomuch
' that our Men could not carry me to the Pinnace, riding at the Grap-
ling without j wherefore hiring a Canoo, the Blacks played the Cha-
ron, and I narrowly escaped with rny Life (being oversctji finding
by sad 'Experience, that Cold Nights assirc-t even in these Kot Coun-
tries, as sensibly as under the Frozen Bear: Leaving off to wonder ac
the Natives quivering and quaking after Sun-sct, wrapping them-
selves in a Cemfy, or Hair-cloath, and the better sort with Quilts,
and making good Fires: For being well drenched in the Sea,the Wind
blowing very high, I was ahnoir. nummed to de'ath before .1 could
reach the Ship.' The reason of this Coolness anights is because
the Rains have lately cooled the Air as well as Earth, which also may
be ascribed to the SunVEcIiptick distance, as well as the length of
the Nights, which are but little longer than the Days; but chiefly
to the soakingMists bedewing the Earth after Sun-ser.
Tanore lies in 10 deg. 30 mio. North Latitude.
Having taken in what Bales of Pepper this Place assorded; we
weighed by Two in the Morning, and by Four in the Afternoon An-
chored against that Anciently Traded Port of Calicut, in the Lati-
tude of 11 deg. 30 min. North.
As
The Portugal
Fort over-
ssowed.
Of Calicut.
Shore the flrst House facing us was the Etigtijh; near it were
placed six smah Pieces, resounding our Salutes at our
Entry.
On the back-side lay two great Guns, dtsmounted, of Brass, all
that is extant of the Portugal Town and'Gistfe (which ran out as far
into the Sea as our Ships now ride, near'four Miles) overssowed by
Water; nothing remaining of it but only what is taken upon Chro-
nicle.
The Story of What is also left of Calicut, is not equivalent to what might be
uiitm. expired from the gleaning of so many Ages'of Traffick; unless, as
Antiquaries esteem, inostof those things arc Moth-eaten by Time,
which Vermin has "been plaguy pernicious here : For the City that
slood upon Stilts, is tripped up, for down it is gone ; and theTem-
pie, whole 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 besitting a ChriOhn ; here and there a
Mosque, and Burying Places with Tanks: A good longBtxzar with
Trassi, and Ripe Fruit; another with Opium, and Spices os this Ccast j
Changers and Jewellers, unsenced and rude in Building; he tells
you but the truth. Indeed it is pleasantly situated under Trees, and
ic is the Holy See of their Zamerbin or Pope.
Its Condition The Citizens are urbane, being trained up to Commerce ; but the
since the p*r- Trade gone to Goa, along with the Portugal;; who at their sirst ar-
rnja.'f lest it. rival into this Bay, found more Ships by joo than we did, without
either Chart or Compass, who most of them tranlported their Com-
modities to the Red Sea, along the Coasts; or to the Gulph of Per-
/sa;