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It struck me as being a very strong place, all the fortifications being almost entirely surrounded by water. There are two harbours an outer and an inner one. The Star came to anchor in the outer one, among a number of vessels of all sorts of curious rigs the petamars of Malabar, the dhows of the Arabs, the dhoneys of Coromandel, and curious sea boats from the Maldive and Laccadive islands.
Meantime the preceding adventurers under Stephen van der Hagen, who had sailed at the end of 1603, had been doing much thorough work. A firm league had been made with one of the chief potentates of Malabar, enabling them to build forts and establish colonies in perpetual menace of Goa, the great oriental capital of the Portuguese.
Chronologically Christian influence is not impossible and there is a tradition that Mâṇikka-Vâçagar reconverted to Hinduism some natives of Malabar who had become Christians but the uncertainty of his date makes it hard to fix his place in the history of doctrine. Recent Hindu scholars are disposed to assign him to the second or third century.
"My dearie," the letter ran; and it bore the address Malabar Cottage, Somarsh, Suffolk. "MY DEARIE, Please thank your good husband for his letter to me announcing the birth of your son. I hope the little man is doing well. Make a sailor of him.
Nowhere else in India does the Brahman, as such, wield the power and assert the prerogatives which the Namputri Brahman enjoys on the Malabar coast.
The Emma Jane Quilon An alarm Landing prisoners Johanna and Mohilla Friendly authorities Slavery A trading monarch Distance lends enchantment to the view Cousins-german of the Sultan Princes gardens Mahommedan sympathy Off again. On the 14th January, as the Alabama was lazily drifting in a north-easterly direction, near the Malabar coast, a ship was discovered running down towards her.
When the zamorin received notice of the army of Cochin having taken post at this ford, he was somewhat afraid, more especially as he knew Naramuhin was considered to be the bravest and most fortunate warrior in Malabar.
The Reptons lived upon the Khamballa Hill and the bow-window of their drawing-room looked down upon the Arabian Sea and southwards along the coast towards Malabar Point. In this embrasure Mrs. Repton sat through a morning, denying herself to her friends. A book lay open on her lap but her eyes were upon the sea.
There is a race of men at Malacca, who appear to be the descendants of some natives of Malabar who settled there a century ago, and Malay women; a bad breed certainly, and the men I speak of seem to possess all the devilry of both races. Numbers of them visit Singapore from time to time, bringing among other things, thousands of the Malacca canes which are so much esteemed in England.
I'm glad I wasn't asked. I should never have thought of that, and I could have had to say 'Yes. OSWALD. By Noel Hark! what is that noise of rolling Waves and thunder in the air? 'Tis the death-knell of the sailors And officers and passengers of the good ship Malabar.
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