Calicut produces
_zeromba_[9]; and Cananore sends cardamoms, being only twelve leagues
distant. Long pepper is found in _Same_[10]. Benzoin from _Zan_, 700 miles
from Calicut. Zedoary is produced in the territory of Calicut. Lac comes
from the city of _Samoterra[11], 500 leagues distant. Brasil wood from the
region of _Tannazar_, 500 leagues. Opium from the coast of _Adde_, 700
leagues.
[1] This Section is taken from the _Novus Orbus_ of Grynaeus, p 63. in
which it forms part of the navigations from Lisbon to Calicut,
attributed to the pen of Aloysius Cadamosto. The information it
contains respecting the principal commodities then brought from India
to Europe, and their prices, is curious: Yet there is some reason to
suspect that the author, or editor rather, has sometimes interchanged
the bahar and the faracula, or its twentieth part, in the weights of
the commodities. Several of the names of things and places are
unintelligible, probably from corrupt transcription. - E.
[2] Meluza may possibly be the city of Malacca, then a great emporium of
Indian trade; but it is impossible to reconcile or explain Meluza in
Cananore twelve leagues from Calicut, and Meluza 740 leagues from
thence. - E.
[3] This may possibly refer to the island of Ramisseram in the straits of
Manaar, between Ceylon and the Coromandel coast, near which the famous
pearl fishery is still carried on.
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