Departing from Cambay, I came in twelve days journey to the city of Ceull[64], the land of Guzerat being interposed between these two cities.  The king of this city is an idolater.  His subjects are of a dark yellow colour, or lion tawny, and are much addicted to war, in which they use swords, bows and arrows, darts, slings, and round targets.  They have engines to beat down walls and to make a great slaughter in an army.  The city is only three miles from the sea on the banks of a fine river, by which a great deal of merchandise is imported.  The soil is fertile and produces many different kinds of fruits, and in the district great quantities of cotton cloth are made.  The people are idolaters like those of Calicut, of whom mention will be made hereafter, yet there are many Mahometans in the city.  The king has but a small military force, and the government is administered with justice.  Two days journey from thence is a city named Dabuly[65] on a great river and in a fertile country.  It is walled like the towns of Italy, and contains a vast number of Mahometan merchants.  The king is an idolater, having an army of 30,000 men.  Departing from thence I came to the island of Goga[66], not above a mile from the continent, which pays yearly a tribute of 1000 pieces of gold to the king of Deccan, about the same value with the seraphins of Babylon.  These coins are impressed on one side with the image of the devil[67], and on the other side are some unknown characters.  On the sea coast at one side of this island there is a town much like those of Italy, in which resides the governor, who is captain over a company of soldiers named Savain, consisting of 400 Mamelukes, he being likewise a Mameluke.  Whenever he can procure any white man he takes them into his service and gives them good entertainment, and if fit for military service, of which he makes trial of their strength by wrestling, he gives them a monthly allowance of 20 gold seraphins; but if not found fit for war he employs them in handicrafts.  With this small force of only 400 men, he gives much disturbance to the king of Narsinga.

[Footnote 64:  There is a district on the west of Gujerat or Guzerat named Chuwal, on the river Butlass or Banass which runs into the gulf of Cutch, which may be here meant.—.]

[Footnote 65:  No name having the least affinity to that in the text is to be found in any modern map of India near the coast of Gujerat.  It would almost appear that the author had now gone down the coast of India, and that his Chuwal and Dabuly are Chaul and Dabul on the coast of the Concan.—­E.]

[Footnote 66:  Nothing can possibly be made of this island of Goga.  There is a town on the coast of Gujerat and western side of the gulf of Cambay called Gogo, but it is no island, and could not possibly be subject to the king of the Deccan; and besides Verthema is obviously now going down the western coast of India.—­E.]