the whole of it in safety, if they can avoid the danger of _lions_[78]. This king is in amity with the king of Portugal, and is a great friend to the Christians, so that the Portuguese are received and treated in his dominions in a friendly and honourable manner. [Footnote 78: Wherever lions are mentioned by this traveller in India, tigers are to be understood.--E.] When I had tarried many days in this great city, I returned to Cananore, whence, after three days stay I went to a city twelve miles from thence, named _Trempata_[79], a sea-port, inhabited by idolaters, but frequented by many Mahometan merchants. The only riches of this place consists in Indian nuts, or cocoa-nuts, and timber for ship-building. Passing from thence, by the cities of _Pandara_ and _Capagot_[80], I came to the famous city of Calicut. To avoid prolixity, I pass over many other kingdoms and peoples, such as _Chianul_? _Dabul_, _Onouè_? _Bangalore_, _Cananore_, _Cochin_, _Cacilon_? and _Calonue_, or _Coulan_[81]. I have so done on purpose to enable me to treat more at large of Calicut, being in a manner the metropolis of all the Indian cities, as the king thereof exceeds all the kings of the east in royal majesty, and is therefore called _Samoory_ or _Zamorin_, which in their language signifies _God on earth_. [Footnote 79: About that distance south from Cananore is Dermapatam.--E.] [Footnote 80: No names in the least respect similar to these are to be found in the indicated route between Cananore and Calicut.--E.] [Footnote 81: Of the three places marked with points of interrogation, the names are so disfigured in the orthography as to be unintelligible; _Cianul_ may possibly be Chaul, _Onouhè_ Onore, and _Cacilon_ Cranganore.--E.] SECTION VIII. _Account of the famous City and Kingdom of Calicut._