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Called Coje Bequi by De Faria; or rather Khojah Beki, or Beghi: But most of the foreign names are so corruptly given that it is difficult to rectify them. Astl. I. 44. b. According to De Faria, this house was granted not without great difficulty, and was taken possession of by Correa with sixty men. Astl.
By this latter patent, it appears that this trade was advised by the Portuguese residing in London, and one voyage had been made before the grant. See Hakluyt, II. part 2. pp. 114 and 123. Astl.
Including this last ship, there returned six to Portugal out of the twelve which had sailed on the voyage for India, the other six having been lost. It will appear in the sequel that there was another captain named Vasco de Tayde. Astley says only 1200, Astl.
Jobson, who was at the Gambra or Gambia in 1620, repeats the whole substance of this story; and Movette relates the circumstances of the blacks trafficking for salt without being seen, which he had from the Moors of Morocco. He leaves out, however, the story of the frightful lips. Every fiction has its day; and that part is now out of date. Astl.
We took the name from them, and hence came the name of the Grain Coast Astl. While we were among them, several of the women danced and sung after their manner, by way of amusing us, but the sound was by no means agreeable to our ears. Their song was continually, Sakere, sakere, ho! ho! Sakere, sakere, ho! ho! And with these words they kept leaping, dancing and clapping their hands.
I suspect the editor is mistaken; for however strongly the philosophical sect of Confucius may be convinced of the absurdity of idolatry, the religion of Fo is as grossly idolatrous as any on the face of the earth; and it is to be noticed, that the dynasty then reigning in China was native. The emperor died in the same year; but after the departure of the ambassadors. Astl.
The infant Don Henry of Portugal died in 1463; so that there must have been an interval of six or seven years between the second voyage of Cada Mosto and this of Piedro de Cintra: Though de Faria seems to put this voyage as having been executed before the death of that excellent prince, yet Cada Mosto, who then actually resided at Lagos, could not be mistaken is this important particular. Astl.
In Forsters edition, this sentence is differently expressed, as follows: "On the nineteenth they came to a town called Naas, or Naar, near which several Zeijids, or descendants of Mahomet, are settled, at a place named Termed". E. This name Kabul is evidently a mistake for Kamul, Khamul, Khamil, Kamyl, or Chamil; called Hami by the Chinese. Astl.
The quantity in the text, reduced to avoirdupois weight, amounts to twenty-eight hogsheads, at sixteen hundred weight each. Astl. In Clarke, this person is named Ferrero; perhaps the right name of this person was Fernando Pereira, who subdued Gomera and Ferro. A species of moss, or lichen rather, that grows on the rocks, and is used by dyers. Clarke.
As this was a chief place for trade, I told them that I intended to wait upon their king that I might give him certain presents which I had brought out of England, on purpose to strengthen the friendship between their nation and ours. This seems to have provoked the king of Portugal, who proposed to ruin the English trade by means of these agents or spies. Astl.
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