India Seems Always Here Limited To The Malabar Coast.

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From Satagan I travelled by the country of the King of Tippara, or _Porto Grande_[417]. The _Mogores_ or _Mogen_ [Moguls] have almost continual wars with Tiperah; the Mogen of the kingdom of _Recon_ and _Rame_, are stronger than the King of Tiperah, so that Cittigong or Porto Grande is often under the dominion of the king of _Recon_[418]. There is a country four days journey from _Couche_ called _Bottanter_[419], the principal city of which is _Bottia_, and the king is called _Dermain_. The people are tall, strong, and very swift. Many merchants come here out of China, and it is said even from Muscovy and Tartary, to purchase musk, _cambals_, agates, silk, pepper, and saffron, like the saffron of Persia[420]. This country is very great, being not less than three months journey in extent, and contains many high mountains, one of them so steep and high that it may be perfectly seen at the distance of six days journey[421]. There are people on these mountains having ears a span long, and they call such as have not long ears asses. They say that from these mountains _they see ships sailing on the sea_, but know not whence they come nor whither they go. There are merchants who come out of the east from under the sun, which is from China, having no beards, who say their country is warm; but others come from the north, on the other side of the mountains, where it is very cold.

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