Lucas and Mr Brown should remain there, while I went on with the
ship to Masulipatam, the roadstead of which place was better. We got
there on the 31st, when Zaldechar Khan sent us a licence. We agreed to
send a present to Mir Sumela, a great officer under the king at
Condapoli, and farmer of his revenues, that we might be secured against
the chicanery of the inferior officers.
[Footnote 377: In Purchas it is called three-thirds per cent. which,
in the text, we have changed to three; yet a little farther on it
would appear that four per cent. had been agreed for. - E].
The 20th January, 1612, Cotobara, king of Badaya, or
Lollingana,[378] and Masulipatam, died, and great disturbances were
apprehended; but Mir Masunim wisely prevented any troubles, by
immediately proclaiming Mahmud Unim Cotobara, a young man of great
hopes, son to a brother of the deceased king, who had left no sons. His
uncle had submitted to the authority of the Persians,[379] but the new
king evinced a spirit of independence, and disgraced Mir Sumela, the
fountain of tyranny and oppression.
[Footnote 378: These titles are inexplicable, but in the sequel he
appears to have been king of Golconda. - E.]
[Footnote 379: The Moguls are probably here meant, named Persians by
Floris, because they used the Persian language.
