Kulam

We originally wanted to see Mirrors but Rams 'had already seen it and no one wanted to watch Eagle Eye for some odd reason so we ended up watching Mag-Ingat Ka Sa Kulam!

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Tamara-Kulam, and was a very interesting structure, built into the fork of one of the tall seed-stalks of the rush growing there; the walls rested exteriorly against three of the branches of the fork, but were worked round some of the stems of the flower itself which sprung from the base of the fork.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

We arrived in Faknur, where 'Ali Nawak disembarked and remained, while we went on in the same ship to Kulam and stayed there for some time

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Manjarur and the lone southern port Kulam (Quilon).

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As in the case of Yiju, we follow his story from letters he wrote in Hebrew while at Sindabur (Goa) on the Malabar coast and later from Kulam and Ayadhab, letters which then found their way to the Genizah (New readers may refer my notes on Yiju if you have not been initiated to the Genizah scrolls as yet).

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In Faknur the captain (Ali Nawak a prominent Indian shipmaster or Nakhuda who had a number of business deals with the Jews) disappeared, but the ship continued to Kulam, where it stayed for some time.

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Moreover, the report about legal procedures and other government care for the foreigners in Kulam (Quilon), the southernmost port on the Malabar Coast (from which one returned to Aden), were reassuring.

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Because of riots and bloodshed in Malabar the ship could not sail to Kulam and changed course to faknur.

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Ten days after leaving Kulam the ship encountered a dangerous sea, the captain died, and a vociferous crowd on board forced the ship back to Kulam, where it arrived after another twenty days.

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After twenty days we arrived in Kulam, the place we feared.

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