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“This Province, in whose Port your ships have tane refuge, the Malabar by name is known; its ántique rite adoreth idols vain, Idol-religion being broadest sown: Of divers Kings it is; but ’twas the Reign, as olden legend saith, of only one, hight the last King was Sarmá Perimal, who ’neath one sceptre held the Kingdom all.