- With Regard To The Anchors, Pauthier's Text Has Just The Opposite Of The G.T. Which We Have Preferred:

"Les nefs du Manzi portent si grans ancres de fust, que il seuffrent moult de grans fortunes aus plajes" De Mailla says the Chinese consider their ironwood anchors to be much better than those of iron, because the latter are subject to strain.

(Lett. Edif. XIV. 10.) Capt. Owen has a good word for wooden anchors. (Narr. of Voyages, etc., I. 385.)

[1] The Town of Monte d'Ely appears (Monte Dil) in Coronelli's Atlas (1690) from some older source. Mr. Burnell thinks Baliapatan (properly Valarpattanam) which is still a prosperous Mappila town, on a broad and deep river, must be Hili. I see a little difficulty in this. [Marabia at Monte Dely is often mentioned in Correa, as one of the ports of the Kingdom of Cananor.]

[2] Mr. Burnell thinks Kachchilpattanam must be an error (easy in Malayalim) for Kavvilpattanam, i.e. Kavvayi (Kanwai in our map).

[3] As printed by Rowlandson, the name is corrupt (like many others in the book), being given as Hubaee Murawee. But suspecting what this pointed to, I examined the MS. in the R.A. Society's Library. The knowledge of the Arabic character was quite sufficient to enable me to trace the name as [Arabic], Hili Marawi. (See Rowlandson, pp. 54, 58-59, and MS. pp. 23 and 26, also Indian Antiquary, III. p. 213.)

CHAPTER XXV.

CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF MELIBAR.

Melibar is a great kingdom lying towards the west.

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