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Rice: and from thence you goe to a little fort called Bazelor, there they haue good store of Rice which is carried to Goa: and from thence you shall goe to a city called Cananor, which is a harquebush shot distant from the chiefest city that the king of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cananor tenne or fifteene great shippes laden with great Nuts cured, and with sugar made of the selfe same Nuts called Giagra: the tree whereon these Nuts doe grow is called the Palmer tree: and thorowout all the Indies, and especially from this place to Goa there is great abundance of them, and it is like to the Date tree.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cabral in revenge bombarded the city, and, leaving the wooden houses in flames, he sailed away to Cochin and Cananor on the coast of Malabar.
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They trade cardamomum in Malabar, Calecut, and Cananor, [that plant] being used throughout the Orient to sweeten the breath.
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After sailing on for twenty-two days, land was espied, as the pilots had told them it would be; and a lofty mountain, off which they came, was, they were informed, in the kingdom of Cananor.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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They were three days taking on board the goods and provisions with which the King of Cananor supplied them.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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As there was a fair wind the ships set sail and ran down the coast until they came off Cananor.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The King of Cananor then told them that he had received a letter from the King of Calecut exculpating himself, and saying that what had been done was without his sanction, and that he was determined to inflict a severe punishment on the guilty persons.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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On nearing the land, they sailed along it until they came in sight of a large city of thatched houses, in a bay called Cananor.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Standing along the coast, the ships passed close to the town of Cananor, which, being a mean place, greatly disappointed Vasco da Gama, as he supposed that it was Calecut; but the pilots set him right, and conducted him twelve leagues farther on, when the anchors were dropped off the town of Capocate, two leagues from the large city of Celecut, situated in a bay.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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