"After passing
this place" (the river of Nirapura or Nileshwaram) "along the coast is the
mountain Dely (of Ely) on the edge of the sea; it is a round mountain,
very lofty, in the midst of low land; all the ships of the Moors and
Gentiles that navigate in this sea of India sight this mountain when
coming from without, and make their reckoning by it; ... after this, at
the foot of the mountain to the south, is a town called Marave, very
ancient and well off, in which live Moors and Gentiles and Jews; these
Jews are of the language of the country; it is a long time that they have
dwelt in this place."
(Stanley's Correa, Hak. Soc. pp. 145, 312-313; Gildem. p. 185;
Elliot, I. 68; I.B. IV. 81; Conti, p. 6; Madras Journal, XIII.
No. 31, pp. 14, 99, 102, 104; De Barros, III. 9, cap. 6, and IV. 2, cap.
13; De Couto, IV. 5, cap. 4.)
NOTE 2. - This is from Pauthier's text, and the map with ch. xxi.
illustrates the fact of the many wide rivers. The G.T. has "a good river
with a very good estuary" or mouth. The latter word is in the G.T.
faces, afterwards more correctly foces, equivalent to fauces. We
have seen that Ibn Batuta also speaks of the estuary or inlet at Hili.
