- E.
[7] This is a species of bark of some burthen, then used on the Malabar
coast. - E.
[8] Such is the expression of Lichefild; which I suspect ought to have
been 500 nayres of Cochin in paraws. - E.
[9] The quantity in the text is probably exaggerated considerably, as
only a few pages before, the factory at Cochin is said to have only
been able to procure 300 quintals. - E.
[10] In Astleys Collection, I. p. 55. Coulan or Koulan is said to have
been governed at this time by a _queen_ or rana. By Narsinga Bisnagar
is to be understood, which was one of the sovereignties into which the
Decan or southern peninsula of India was then divided - E.
[11] The western coast of India below the Gauts, is divided into three
portions, the Concan in the north, after this the coast of Canara, and
in the south, the country of Malabar, reaching from Mount Deli to Cape
Comorin. At the present period, Malabar was divided into seven
kingdoms or provinces: Cananor, Calicut, Cranganor, Cochin, Porka,
Coulan, and Travancore; which last was subject to the kingdom of
Narsinga or Bisnagar. Cananor, Calicut, and Coulan only were
considered as independent rajahs, the others being less or more
subjected to the authority of these three.
