75 goes off to do his business and get ready to return the following year. There is a Mouros governor here appointed by a lord who is a vassal of the King of Deccan, and who informs him of his rents and collects them. He is called Sheik and he is a great servant of Our Lord and King, a good friend of the Portuguese and all who come to this harbour are warmly welcomed. A factor has been stationed here by the captain and factor of Goa, to send provisions and other things that we need there for ourfleets.The merchants who come to trade here, during the season that I have already mentioned, those that come from the interior, travel overland and they set up a camp with everything they bring in a place which is almost a league inland from Chaul. They bring their goods in great caravans of tame oxen with packsaddles, like the Castillians use, and on top they put long sacks across them, which they load their wares in to, and one muleteer alone will drive some twenty or thirty oxen. Danda Heading along the coast from this village of Chaul towards India, one comes to another village with a harbour and which belongs to Deccan, called Danda, where many Mouros; Gujarat and Malabar ships come and go. Mandaba Past the village of Danda, one comes upon a river called Mamdaba, where there is another Mouros and gentile village of the said kingdom of Deccan, which also has an excellent harbour, visited by ships from many parts and in particular from Malabar which come to buy cloths. They sell coconuts and areca nuts here which are widely used in the interior, and they also bring some spices; copper, and quicksilver, which they sell at a good price to the merchants from the interior.
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