It Is Merely Possible That He May Have Gone Into Bootan, Which Is To The North Of Bengal.

- E.]

[Footnote 411: In Mexico they likewise use the cacao fruit, or chocolate nut, for small money, which are not unlike almonds. - _Hakluyt_.]

From thence I returned to _Hugeli_, [Hoogly in Bengal] which is the place where the Portuguese have their residence in Bengal, being in lat. 23 deg. N[412]. About a league from it is _Satagan_[413], called by the Portuguese _Porto Piqueno_, or the little port. We went through the wilderness, because the right way was infested by robbers. In passing through the country of Gouren we found few villages, being almost all wilderness, in which were many buffaloes, wild swine, and deer, with many tigers, the grass being everywhere as tall as a man. Not far from Porto Piqueno, to the south-westwards, and in the country of _Orixa_, is a sea-port called _Angeli_[414]. It was formerly a separate kingdom, the king being a great friend to strangers; but was afterwards taken by the king of Patna, who did not enjoy it long, being himself conquered by the king of Delhi, Agra, and Cambaia, Zelabdim Echebar. Orissa is six days journey south-westwards from _Satagan_. In this place there is much, rice, and cloth made of cotton; likewise great store of cloth made of grass, which they call _Yerva_, resembling silk, of which they make excellent cloth, which is sent to India and other places[415]. To this haven of _Ingelly_ there come many ships every year out of India, Negapatnam, Sumatra, Malacca, and many other places, and load from hence great quantities of rice, much cotton cloths, sugar and long pepper, and great store of butter and other provisions for India[416]. Satagan is a very fair city for one belonging to the Moors, and is very plentiful in all things.

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