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A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

Note 285 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 4)

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

Bengala, Ortelius, and on the same spot in Homannus Chatigan; in our maps Chittagong, which name was changed by the Moghuls in 1666 to Islam Abad.

"Vê Cathigão cidade das melhores De Bengala provincia; que se preza De abundante; mas olha, que está posta Para o Austro de aqui virada a costa."—Lusiad. x, stan. 121.

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