This Place Is Named Kapokats.

- E.

[60] Kafr is an Arabic word, signifying an infidel or unbeliever; and is applied by the Mahometans to all who do not believe the doctrines of Mahomet, and especially to all who worship images, including the Roman Catholics. The priests mentioned in the text were obviously bramins. The origin of the term here used by mistake, was obviously from the interpretation of Bontaybo, the friendly Moor; and explains the mistake of De Gama in believing the Malabars to have been Christians. Bontaybo applied the same significant term of kafr to the image worshippers of all denominations, without discriminating one species of idolater from another. - E.

[61] On this part of the text, the author, or the original translator, makes the following singular marginal reflection: - "The general deceived, committeth idolatry with the Devil." - E.

[62] Astley, I. 24. a.

[63] Called in Astley _sharafins_. - Astl. I. 36.

[64] De Faria says that this fleet belonged to a pirate named Timoja, of whom frequent mention will be made hereafter; and that the eight ships were so linked together, and covered over with boughs of trees, that they resembled a floating island. - Astl. I. 38. a.

[65] More probably Anche-diva, or Ange-diva. - Astl. I. 38. b.

[66] These vessels seem more probably to have been the squadron of Timoja. - Astl. I. 38. c.

[67] Frangnes, Franghis, or Feringays, a common name all over the East for Europeans; assuredly derived from the Francs or French, long known as the great enemy of the Mahometans, by their exploits in the crusades.

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