But The King Of Calicut Having Treated Them Badly, They
Quitted That City, And Returning Shortly After Inflicted No Small
Slaughter On The People Of Calicut, And After That Returned No More.
After
that they began to frequent Mailapetam, a city subject to the king of
Narsingha; a region towards the East, ...
And there they now drive their
trade." There is also in Caspar Correa's account of the Voyages of Da Gama
a curious record of a tradition of the arrival in Malabar more than four
centuries before of a vast merchant fleet "from the parts of Malacca, and
China, and the Lequeos" (Lewchew); many from the company on board had
settled in the country and left descendants. In the space of a hundred
years none of these remained; but their sumptuous idol temples were still
to be seen. (Stanley's Transl., Hak. Soc., p. 147.)[1] It is probable
that both these stories must be referred to those extensive expeditions to
the western countries with the object of restoring Chinese influence which
were despatched by the Ming Emperor Ch'eng-Tsu (or Yung-lo), about 1406,
and one of which seems actually to have brought Ceylon under a partial
subjection to China, which endured half a century. (See Tennent, I. 623
seqq.; and Letter of P. Gaubil in J.A. ser. II. tom. x. pp. 327-328.)
["So that at this day there is great memory of them in the ilands
Philippinas, and on the cost of Coromande, which is the cost against the
kingdome of Norsinga towards the sea of Cengala:
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