64 ours. They have large courtyards, with tanks and wells with excellent water. They use camels as packhorses. They have beautiful freshwater streams with many fish. There are many vegetable plots and orchards here. In this city and many others in the interior, the king of Cambay has governors and tax collectors. If they do not carry out their offices properly, the king sends for them and if he is not persuaded of their reasons, he orders them to be given a poisoned drink, from which they die upon drinking it. This is how he punishes them and he is greatly feared by all. Besides these cities and many others (as I said) that he has in the interior, he has the following ones along the coast. Patenexey Leaving the kingdom of Dewal heading towards India, one comes to a river where there is a large city called Patenexey, with afine seaport. It is rich and has a busy trade. They makefine and intricate coloured silks here, which are worn all over India and Malacca and Bengal, as well as many others made of cotton. Many ships come to this port from India, laden with coconut; palm-sugar that they call jagra, and some spices; they return with many cloths; cotton; horses and wheat, among other things, which they make a lot of money from. Their journeys, with the stopovers, last for four months. Surat, Mangalore Heading past this place and along the coast, one comes to two other places called Surat and Mangalore, which have good harbours and a great deal of trade with ships coming from Malabar, and many horses. They come for wheat; rice; many cotton cloths and other goods that are valuable in India; the Malabars bring them coconuts; emery; beeswax;
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