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WESTERN HINDOOSTAN.
CoiMBOTORE
Country.
Cranganore.
but the laft rufh with vaft violence through this great breach.
During the north-eaft Monfoons, fhips at fome diftance at fea, as
foon as they come within the openings, feel the fierce effect of
the wind, which pours on them with vaft fury, but before they
reach the line of the gap, and when they have pafTed it, the
flilleft calm fucceeds.
The river Paniani rifes from the north-eaft in the Coimbotore
country, and paffes through the breach, and in the rainy feafon
is navigable for fmall boats, to the foot of the Ghauts. Its fource
is from an elevated plain, fixty miles in extent, riling fuddenly
out of the furrounding country like a vaft terrace, and faces the
great gap : Such are common in India, and are features almoft
peculiar to the country.
TwENTY-five miles fouth of Paniani is Cranganore, the
northern frontier of the Rajah/bip of Travencore. When
Gama arrived on this coaft he was furprifed with a vifit of
certain deputies from that city, informing him, that they
were, like him, Chriftians, and requefting to be taken under
the protection of his great mafter, Emmanuel. Gama received
them with the utmoft affection, and afTured them, he mould
recommend their interefts to the Portuguefe Admirals*, whom
he mould leave on the coaft. After his departure, a quarrel
happened between them and the Zamorin. A fhip loaden with
fpices was on its way from Cali'cut to Cranganore; fuch was the
avarice of the Portuguefe, that they could not refift making it
a prize. The nephew of the Zamorin, who was their warm
Oforio. lib. i. p. 134.,
friend.
WESTERN HINDOOSTAN.
CoiMBOTORE
Country.
Cranganore.
but the laft rufh with vaft violence through this great breach.
During the north-eaft Monfoons, fhips at fome diftance at fea, as
foon as they come within the openings, feel the fierce effect of
the wind, which pours on them with vaft fury, but before they
reach the line of the gap, and when they have pafTed it, the
flilleft calm fucceeds.
The river Paniani rifes from the north-eaft in the Coimbotore
country, and paffes through the breach, and in the rainy feafon
is navigable for fmall boats, to the foot of the Ghauts. Its fource
is from an elevated plain, fixty miles in extent, riling fuddenly
out of the furrounding country like a vaft terrace, and faces the
great gap : Such are common in India, and are features almoft
peculiar to the country.
TwENTY-five miles fouth of Paniani is Cranganore, the
northern frontier of the Rajah/bip of Travencore. When
Gama arrived on this coaft he was furprifed with a vifit of
certain deputies from that city, informing him, that they
were, like him, Chriftians, and requefting to be taken under
the protection of his great mafter, Emmanuel. Gama received
them with the utmoft affection, and afTured them, he mould
recommend their interefts to the Portuguefe Admirals*, whom
he mould leave on the coaft. After his departure, a quarrel
happened between them and the Zamorin. A fhip loaden with
fpices was on its way from Cali'cut to Cranganore; fuch was the
avarice of the Portuguefe, that they could not refift making it
a prize. The nephew of the Zamorin, who was their warm
Oforio. lib. i. p. 134.,
friend.