bably flood the E/ancon emporium of Ptolomy. Marco Polo,
the celebrated traveller of the thirteenth century, vilited the
place in his journey through part of India. He calls this traót
L e Royaume <TEIi, and Albulfeda, Ras Heili, or the Cape of
Heili. Polo fays, it abounded with pepper, ginger, and other
fpices. He adds, that i f a ihip happened to be driven into
their port by a tempeft, the king immediately confifcated it,
faying—* You never intended to còme here, but God and
“ fortune difpofed it otherwife; fo we will profit of what
“ they have been pleafed to fend.”
C a n a n o r i . Cananore ftand a little to the fouth of Mount Lilia. In 1 5 0 1
it was vilited by Cabral, on an invitation from the monarch of
the place, who treated him in the kindeft and molt affezionate
manner. The Portuguefe obtained leave to eredi a fort near
the city, which was their firft and ufual ftep towards the enflav-
ing the natives. The friendly monarch died. The new king,
provoked by the barbarity of one Goes, who had taken an Arabian
ihip, fewed up the whole crew in the fails, and flung
them into the fea. Exafperated at this cruelty, the ruling
prince laid liege to the fort. The garrifon were reduced to
the laft extremity by famine, when they were relieved, by the
fea flinging on ihore great quantities of Ihrimps *. Priftan de
Cunba arrived with his fleet, and relieved the garrifon. The
city afterwards was taken by the Portuguefe, who continued
mailers o f it till it was befieged, in 1660, by the Lutcb.
Generai Abei- In Lecember 1790, in the beginning o f the campaign o f that
cROMBY. year, againft Pippoo Sultan, Major-General Robert Abercromby
• Oforio, i. p. 268,
opened
opened it with the reduction o f Cananore and Nurrcarow, which
he inítantly efíe¿ted in the fight of ctippoo. Leaving garriions
behind, he took poll, on March 1, 1791, on the head of the
Ghauts, at Pondicherrim, oppofite to Cananore. He then proceeded
to Periapatam, along the plains o f Myfore, about eighteen
miles from the edge o f thofe vail heights. He reached
that fort on May 16. It was deferted by the garrifon, after
blowing up fome o f the baftions; and only eighteen miles intervened
between him and the grand army, commanded by
Lord Cornwallis, ready to inveft Seringapatam, the refidence of
Pippoo. The Sultan exerted every refource o f a great mind to
avert his fate. He fought a pitched battle with the Rritijh
General, and fuffered a complete defeat. The Lord of Holts
interfered, and deferred his defirudtion. The time o f the
Monfoons came on. The viitor was obliged to deftroy part
o f his train, and fall back to Bangalore. The fwell o f the
Cawry forced Abercromby to retire “ who had, with infinite
“ labor, formed roads, and brought a battering train-, and
“ a large fupply o f provifions and flores, over fifty miles o f
“ woody mountains, called Ghauts, thatimmenfe barrier, which
feparates the Myfore country from the Malabar coall. Part
“ of General Abercromby’s train alfo fell a facrifice to the necef-
“ fity of the times : and his army, who thought they had-fur-
“ mounted all their difficulties, had the mortification to-find
-their exertions o f no utility, and had to return, worn down
- by ficknefs and fatigue, expofed to the inceflant fains which
“ then deluged the weflern coall of the peninfula
* Major Dirom’s Campaigns, p. 2.
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