[Footnote 413:  We thus are enabled to discover nearly the situation of Satagan or Satigan, to have been on the Hoogly river, probably where Chinsura now stands, or it may have been Chandernagor.—­E.]

[Footnote 414:  Injelly, at the mouth of a small river which falls into the Hoogly, very near its discharge into the bay of Bengal.  Injelly is not now considered as in Orissa, but in the district of Hoogly belonging to Bengal, above forty miles from the frontiers—­E.]

[Footnote 415:  A similar cloth may be made of the long grass which grows in Virginia.—­Hakluyt.]

[Footnote 416:  India seems always here limited to the Malabar coast.—­E.]

From Satagan I travelled by the country of the King of Tippara, or Porto Grande[417].  The Mogores or Mogen [Moguls] have almost continual wars with Tiperah; the Mogen of the kingdom of Recon and Rame, are stronger than the King of Tiperah, so that Cittigong or Porto Grande is often under the dominion of the king of Recon[418].  There is a country four days journey from Couche called Bottanter[419], the principal city of which is Bottia, and the king is called Dermain.  The people are tall, strong, and very swift.  Many merchants come here out of China, and it is said even from Muscovy and Tartary, to purchase musk, cambals, agates, silk, pepper, and saffron, like the saffron of Persia[420].  This country is very great, being not less than three months journey in extent, and contains many high mountains, one of them so steep and high that it may be perfectly seen at the distance of six days journey[421].  There are people on these mountains having ears a span long, and they call such as have not long ears asses.  They say that from these mountains they see ships sailing on the sea, but know not whence they come nor whither they go.  There are merchants who come out of the east from under the sun, which is from China, having no beards, who say their country is warm; but others come from the north, on the other side of the mountains, where it is very cold.  These merchants from the north are apparelled in woollen cloth and hats, with close white hose or breeches and boots, who come from Muscovy or Tartary.  These report that they have excellent horses in their country, but very small; some individuals possessing four, five, or six hundred horses and cattle.  These people live mostly on milk and flesh.  They cut off the tails of their cows, and sell them very dear, as they are in high request in those parts.  The rump is only a span long, but the hair is a yard in length.  These tails are used for show, to hang upon the heads of elephants, and are much sought after in Pegu and China.

[Footnote 417:  Perhaps this ought to have been, by the country of Tipera to Porto Grande.  Porto Grande, formerly called Chittigong, is now called Islamabad, and is in the district of Chittigong, the most easterly belonging to Bengal.—­E.]