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the Company's ship, the Duke of Montrose, waiting for
a cargo of pepper. On the 1st of April went on shore
at daylight, and returned on board in the evening.
Anjengo is a small fort and English residency, the
first that you arrive at upon the Malabar coast from
Cape Comorin; the inhabitants are Malabars and native
A RUINED SHRINE AT POLLONARUA IN CEYLON.
Portuguese, mixed. It is reported to be one of the
first places in India for intelligence, and the English
have received great service from it in that respect dur-
ing the late war; it would be still more advantageous
if the road to Europe by way of Suez was open, but
that has been for some time shut up, on account of some
unhappy differences. At Anjengo there is a post to
several parts of India; this is but lately established.
On the 2d of April, sailed; 6th, saw a ship at anchor
in Cochin roads, which we could not enter, being driven
