a town of Asia, on the coast of Malabar in the East Indies, and where the East India company have a factory, fortified with two battions. The valleys about it abound in corn and pepper, which last is the best in the East Indies. The woods on the mountains abound with quadrupeds, such as tygers, wolves, monkeys, wild hogs, deer, elks, and a fort of beesves of a prodigious size. The religion of the natives is Paganism; and they have a great many strange and superstitious customs. E. Long. 73. 7. N. Lat. 15. 6.

CARYATES, in antiquity, a festival in honour of Diana named Caryatis, held at Caryum, a city of Laconia. The chief ceremony was a certain dance said to have been invented by Castor and Pollux, and performed by the virgins of the place. During Xerxes's invasion, the Laconians not daring to appear and celebrate the customary solemnity, to prevent incurring the goddes's anger by such an intermission, the neighbouring towns are said to have assembled and sung pastoral or bucolic poetry, which is said to have been the origin of bucolic poetry.