A Description of the Coasts of East Africa And Malabar in the Beginning of the
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* This passage is translated in the Lisbon edition from Ramusio ; the next paragraph is not to be found in either of them. M 2 164 thp: east African which has written on it a Latin epitaph : " Hie jacet Catal- dus Gulli filius qui obiit anno. . . . "^]"- ARCHIPELAGO OF ISLES. Opposite this country of Malabar, forty leagues to the west in the sea, there is an archipelago of isles, which the Indians say amount to twelve thousand ; and they begin in front of the mountain Dely, and extend southward...s. The first are four small flat islands, which are called Malandiva; they are inhabited by Malabar Moors, and they say that they are from the kingdom of Cananor. Nothing grows in them, except palm trees (cocoa-nut), with the fruit of which and rice brought them from Malabar, they maintain themselves. These islands make much cordage of palm trees, which they call cayro (coir).^ ISLANDS OF PALANDIVA. Over against Panam, Cochin, and Coulam, to the west and south-west, at a distance of seventy-five leagues are other islands, of which ten or twelve are inhabited by Moors, brown and small in stature, who have a separate language and a Moorish king who resides in an island called Mahaldiu.
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