Abulfeda Describes It As "A Great Mountain
Projecting Into The Sea, And Descried From A Great Distance, Called Ras
Haili"; And It Appears In Fra Mauro's Map As Cavo De Eli.
Rashiduddin mentions "the country of Hili," between Manjarur (Mangalore)
and Fandaraina (miswritten in Elliot's copy Sadarsa).
Ibn Batuta speaks
of Hili, which he reached on leaving Manjarur, as "a great and well-built
city, situated on a large estuary accessible to great ships. The vessels
of China come hither; this, Kaulam, and Kalikut, are the only ports that
they enter." From Hili he proceeds 12 miles further down the coast to
Jor-fattan, which probably corresponds to Baliapatan. ELLY appears in
the Carta Catalana, and is marked as a Christian city. Nicolo Conti is the
last to speak distinctly of the city. Sailing from Cambay, in 20 days he
arrived at two cities on the sea-shore, Pacamuria (Faknur, of Rashid
and Firishta, Baccanor of old books, and now Barkur, the Malayalim
Vakkanur) and HELLI. But we read that in 1527 Simon de Melo was sent to
burn ships in the River of Marabia and at Monte d'Elli.[1] When Da
Gama on his second voyage was on his way from Baticala (in Canara) to
Cananor, a squall having sprung his mainmast just before reaching Mt.
d'Ely, "the captain-major anchored in the Bay of Marabia, because he saw
there several Moorish ships, in order to get a mast from them." It seems
clear that this was the bay just behind Mt.
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