Mr. Ballard informs me
that he never heard of ruins of importance at Madai, but there is a place
on the river just mentioned, and within the Madai township, called
Payangadi ("Old Town"), which has the remains of an old fort of the
Kolastri (or Kolatiri) Rajas. A palace at Madai (perhaps this fort) is
alluded to by Dr. Gundert in the Madras Journal, and a Buddhist Vihara
is spoken of in an old Malayalim poem as having existed at the same place.
The same paper speaks of "the famous emporium of Cachilpatnam near Mt.
d'Ely," which may have been our city of Hili, as the cities Hili and
Marawi were apparently separate though near.[2]
[Illustration: Mount d'Ely, from the Sea, in last century.]
The state of Hili-Marawi is also mentioned in the Arabic work on the
early history of the Mahomedans in Malabar, called Tuhfat-al-Mujahidin,
and translated by Rowlandson; and as the Prince is there called
Kolturee, this would seem to identify him either in family or person
with the Raja of Cananor, for that old dynasty always bore the name of
Kolatiri.[3]
The Ramusian version of Barbosa is very defective here, but in Stanley's
version (Hak.
