Purchas His Pilgrimage Or Relations of the World And the Religions Observed in
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This Countrey is very fertile, notycelding to any other in India, in thefruites which the Earth and Trees bring foorth, behdes their ftore of Ele- phants, Gemmcs, Silke, Cotton, and fuch like. The people are of an Oliue-colour, andgoen;ikeJ, exceptaboutthcirpnuieparts. They eatenoFIcfh, but Rice, Milkc, Barley, and other lifc-leffe creatures. The Inhabitants are, for the moftp?. Rt, Gen- tiles; and fo were their Kings, vntilltheMahumctaneSuperftitionsprcuailcd. There arc ' vp within the Land, P...eople called ■^isbuti, which are the natural! Nobles of cUfeph. Fnd: this Kingdome, chafed by the Moores totheMountaines, whence they make of- l-i»Jh/, i. I. C. Z7^ ten excurfions and fpoyles in the Countrey, and the Cambayanspay them tribute, that they might liue in peace. Their chiefe Sea-Townes are Daman, Bandora, Cu- rate, Rauellum, Bazuinum ; and within Land, Cambaia, Madabnr, Campafiel, Tanaaj&c, Cambaia hath beHowedthcnameon the whole Kingdome, which they call the' Indian Cairo, for the excellencie thereof: itftandeth three myles from Indus.
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