- E. [37] The Text Is Here Obscure; But It Would Appear That Only Some Of The Men Belonging To These Two Boats Remained On Board, And The Rest Returned To The Coast.

Not that the Moorish pilots from Mozambique were here dismissed, as the text of Lichefild's translation seems to insinuate.

- E.

[38] Motta, in the Portuguese East Indian Pilot, places this town in lat. 3 50'S. He says the entrance is much incommoded with shoals, and so narrow in some places as not to exceed the length of a ship. This city is said to have once stood on a peninsula, converted into an island by cutting a canal across the isthmus. - Clarke, I. 469.

[39] This may be understood that part of the inhabitants were unmixed Arabs, comparatively whites; while others were of a mixed race between these and the original natives, perhaps likewise partly East Indian Mahometans, of a similar origin. - E.

[40] This is surely an oversight in Castaneda or his translator, for _one_ year. - E.

[41] It is difficult to ascertain what place in India is here meant. Cranganore comes nearer in sound, but is rather nearer Melinda than Calicut; Mangalore is rather more distant. The former a degree to the south of Calicut, the latter not quite two to the north; all three on the Malabar coast. On a former occasion, Castaneda says these merchants were of Cambaya or Guzerat, above eleven degrees north of Calicut. - E.

[42] This seems to be the same office with that named Kadhi, or Khazi, by the Turks and Persians, which is rather the title of a judge than of a priest, which is named Moulah.

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