remaine in a place aboue fiue or sixe dayes: he hath many houses, but they
be but litle: his guard is but small: he remooueth from one house to
another according to their order. All the pepper of Calicut and course
cinamom groweth here in this countrey. The best cinamom doth come from
Ceylon, and is pilled from fine yoong trees. Here are very many palmer or
coco trees, which is their chiefe food: for it is their meat and drinke:
and yeeldeth many other necessary things, as I haue declared before.

[Sidenote: Or Calicut or Cananor.] The Naires which be vnder the king of
Samorin, which be Malabars, haue alwayes wars with the Portugals. The king
hath alwayes peace with them; but his people goe to the sea to robbe and
steale. Their chiefe captaine is called Cogi Alli; he hath three castles
vnder him. When the Portugals complaine to the king, he sayth he doth not
send them out: but he consenteth that they go. They range all the coast
from Ceylon to Goa, and go by foure or fiue parowes or boats together: and
haue in euery one of them fifty or threescore men, and boord presently.
They do much harme on that coast, and take euery yere many foists and boats
of the Portugals. Many of these people be Moores. This kings countrey
beginneth twelue leagues from Cochin, and reacheth neere vnto Goa. I
remained in Cochin vntill the second of Nouember, which was eight moneths;
for that there was no passage that went away in all that time: if I had
come two dayes sooner I had found a passage presently. From Cochin I went
to Goa, where I remained three dayes. From Cochin to Goa is an hundred
leagues. From Goa I went to Chaul, which is threescore leagues, where I
remained three and twenty dayes: and there making my prouision of things
necessary for the shippe, from thence I departed to Ormus; where I stayed
for a passage to Balsara fifty dayes. From Goa to Ormus is foure hundred
leagues.

Here I thought good, before I make an end of this my booke, to declare some