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 bastions. 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 tigers, wolves, monkeys, wild hogs, deers, elks, and a fort of bees 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°.