[Footnote 410:  This seemeth to be Quicheu, accounted by some among the provinces of China.—­Hakluyt.

The name of this country is so excessively corrupt, and the description of the route so vague, that nothing can be made out of the text at this place with any certainty.  It is merely possible that he may have gone into Bootan, which is to the north of Bengal.—­E.]

[Footnote 411:  In Mexico they likewise use the cacao fruit, or chocolate nut, for small money, which are not unlike almonds.—­Hakluyt.]

From thence I returned to Hugeli, [Hoogly in Bengal] which is the place where the Portuguese have their residence in Bengal, being in lat. 23 deg.  N[412].  About a league from it is Satagan[413], called by the Portuguese Porto Piqueno, or the little port.  We went through the wilderness, because the right way was infested by robbers.  In passing through the country of Gouren we found few villages, being almost all wilderness, in which were many buffaloes, wild swine, and deer, with many tigers, the grass being everywhere as tall as a man.  Not far from Porto Piqueno, to the south-westwards, and in the country of Orixa, is a sea-port called Angeli[414].  It was formerly a separate kingdom, the king being a great friend to strangers; but was afterwards taken by the king of Patna, who did not enjoy it long, being himself conquered by the king of Delhi, Agra, and Cambaia, Zelabdim Echebar.  Orissa is six days journey south-westwards from Satagan.  In this place there is much, rice, and cloth made of cotton; likewise great store of cloth made of grass, which they call Yerva, resembling silk, of which they make excellent cloth, which is sent to India and other places[415].  To this haven of Ingelly there come many ships every year out of India, Negapatnam, Sumatra, Malacca, and many other places, and load from hence great quantities of rice, much cotton cloths, sugar and long pepper, and great store of butter and other provisions for India[416].  Satagan is a very fair city for one belonging to the Moors, and is very plentiful in all things.  In Bengal they have every day a great market or fair, called chandeau, in one place or other, and they have many boats called pericose, with which they go from place to place to buy rice and many other things.  These boats are rowed by 24 or 26 oars, and are of great burden, but are quite open.  The gentiles hold the water of the Ganges in great reverence; for even if they have good water close at hand, they will send for water from the Ganges at a great distance.  If they have not enough of it to drink, they will sprinkle a little of it upon themselves, thinking it very salutary.

[Footnote 412:  More accurately 22 deg. 55’ 20” N. and long. 88 deg. 28’ E. Hoogly stands on the western branch of the Ganges, called the Hoogly river, about twenty miles direct north from Calcutta.—­E.]