ABSTRACT
LUDOVICO DI VARTHEMA. 121 rich. A great quantity of cow beef is met with here, and much rice, and good fruits customary in India. In this city there are many Moorish merchants. The lord of it is a pagan. The people are of a tawny colour: they go naked and bare-footed, and wear nothing on the head. This lord is subject to the king of Bethacala. Travelling thence for two days, we went to another place called Onor,1 the king of
being in lat. 14° 40', is five geographical miles south o f that island. Buchanan makes the distance eight cosses from Ancola to Sedasivaghur, and describes the former town as having a ruined fort and a. bazaar, but few inhabitants, “ as in this part of the country the popu lation does not settle in numbers in any spot, but is dispersed in hamlets and farms. Midway between Gaukarna and Ancola, which are three cosses apart, is the Gangawali, an inlet o f salt water...Its mouth toward the sea is narrow, but inwards it forms a lake, which is from one mile to half that extent in width...Boats o f a considerable size (patemars) can come over the bar, and ascend the river for three cosses...The river has no trade, and the country on its banks, though very beautiful, seems rather barren.” P i n k e r t o n , vol. viii. 362, 766-7.
