a once celebrated island and fortress of Hindustan, in the peninsula of Kattywar. It is 6½ miles long by 1½ broad, is nearly barren, and contains no good water, excepting what is collected in ponds during the rainy weather. In 1515 the Portuguese gained possession of Diu. They immediately commenced fortifying it, and in ten years rendered it impregnable against all the powers of India. It soon became a place of great trade and commerce, and was the harbour in which the fleets were laid up in winter. But with the decline of the Portuguese power it fell into decay, and was plundered by the Arabs of Muscat in 1670. It