King _Samuri_, a very powerful prince, who is distinguished also by the name of _Nediriparàgia_ or _Tamulpada_, took from king _Ceramperumal_, not only this city and district, but the whole kingdom of which it forms a part. In remembrance of this heroic exploit, he made the sword and the lamp of his conquered enemy to be always carried before him when he appeared in public. He was able to bring into the field 100,000 men, and was a sworn foe to the Portuguese, and _Perumpadapil_, or king of Cochin, who was descended from _Ceramperumal_, and who could also bring into the field an army equally numerous. These kings, _Samuri_ and _Perumpadapil_, were the only two of all the Indian princes who had a right, as a token of their unlimited power, to have carried before them the branch of a coco-nut tree, bound round with a bandage at the lower end, and quite free at the top. The petty Malabar kings used indeed a branch of the same kind; but it was necessary that it should be bound round at the upper as well as the lower end, in order to shew that they were subject to both these emperors. _Samuri_, whom the Mahometan merchants at Calicut support as the most powerful among all the petty princes, had given battle several times to _Perumpadapil_, and always came off victorious; but in the year 1760, his troops, being divided at _Cranganor_, _Paravur_, and _Verapole_, were attacked unexpectedly by _Martandapulla_, the commander in chief of the king of Travancor, and totally routed. In 1773, thirteen years after, Hayder Aly Khan, who had already made himself master of the kingdom of Maïssur, marched down from _Palacataceri_, fell upon the city of Calicut, and reduced to subjection the whole of Malayala, including the fortress of _Cranganor_ or _Cudungalur_. King _Samuri_, who called himself _Krishna Tamburàn_, with five thousand of his Nayris, or armed nobles, fled to the mountain _Koledimala_, in the neighbourhood of the Gauts, from which they often descended to attack Hayder Aly’s out-posts, and harass his army. Hayder Aly’s son, Tippoo Sultan Bahader, was at length so incensed against the inhabitants of Calicut and the neighbouring district, because they assisted, by every possible means, their former sovereign, that he resolved to punish them; and for that purpose took the field in person. He was preceded by 30,000 barbarians, who butchered every person who came in their way; and by his heavy cannon under the command of general Lally, at the head of a regiment of artillery. Then followed Tippoo Sultan himself, riding on an elephant; and behind him marched another corps, consisting of 30,000 men also. The manner in which he behaved to the inhabitants of Calicut was horrid. A great part of them, both male and female, were hung. He first tied up the mothers, and then suspended the children from their necks. The cruel tyrant caused several Christians and Heathens to be brought out naked, and made