South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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The City Is Only Three Miles From The Sea On The Banks Of A Fine River, By Which A Great Deal Of Merchandise Is Imported.

The soil is fertile and produces many different kinds of fruits, and in the district great quantities of cotton cloth are made.

The people are idolaters like those of Calicut, of whom mention will be made hereafter, yet there are many Mahometans in the city. The king has but a small military force, and the government is administered with justice. Two days journey from thence is a city named _Dabuly_[65] on a great river and in a fertile country. It is walled like the towns of Italy, and contains a vast number of Mahometan merchants. The king is an idolater, having an army of 30,000 men. Departing from thence I came to the island of _Goga_[66], not above a mile from the continent, which pays yearly a tribute of 1000 pieces of gold to the king of _Deccan_, about the same value with the seraphins of Babylon. These coins are impressed on one side with the image of the _devil_[67], and on the other side are some unknown characters. On the sea coast at one side of this island there is a town much like those of Italy, in which resides the governor, who is captain over a company of soldiers named _Savain_, consisting of 400 Mamelukes, he being likewise a Mameluke. Whenever he can procure any white man he takes them into his service and gives them good entertainment, and if fit for military service, of which he makes trial of their strength by wrestling, he gives them a monthly allowance of 20 gold seraphins; but if not found fit for war he employs them in handicrafts.

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