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which belongs to the same Canard, the strip which of India, does not exist in Ceylon."-Tennent's stretches to Cape Comorin..... is called Mala- Ceylon, vol. I. p. 140. bar."-Ibid.
It has been ingeniously suggested by Mr. 1512-".... the kingdom of Canará, which ex. Aldis Wright that the word cheater, as used by tends from the river called Gate, north of Chaul, to Shakspere in the following passage, refers to this Cape Comorin (so far as concerns the interior re- animal : gion east of the Ghats) .. ,. and which in the "Falstaff. He's no Swaggerer, Hostess; a tame east marches with the kingdom of Orisa; and the Cheater i' faith; you may stroke him gently as a Gentoo kings of this great Province of Canará were puppy Greyhound; he'll not swagger."-2nd. Pt. those from whom sprung the present kings of King Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 4. Bisnaga."-Id., Dec. II. liv. v. cap. ii.
The interpretation would rather perhaps derive 1598:-" The land itselfe is called Decam, and corroboration from a parallel passage in Beaumont also Canara."-Linschoten, p. 49.
and Fletcher :1614___"Its proper name is Charnathacà, which
"if von give any credit to this inclin from corruption to corruption has come to be rascal, you are worse than simple widgeons, and called Canara."-Couto, Dec. VI. liv. v. ch. v. will be drawn into the net by this decoy-duck,
In the following quotations the name is applied this tame Cheater."--The Fair Maid of the I, Act either inclusively or exclusively to the territory | IV. Sc. 2. which we now call Canara :
But we have not been able to trace any source 1615 :-"Canara. Thence to the Kingdome of from which there is the least probability that the Canarrins, which is but a little one, and 5 dayes Shakspere could have derived the name of the iourney from Damans. They are tall of stature, animal, to say nothing of the familiar use of it in idle, for the most part, and therefore the greater Falstaff's mouth. theeues." -De Monfart, p. 23.
(To be continued.) 1623 :-"Having found a good opportunity such as I desired of getting out of Goa, and penetrating further in India, that is more to the South, to
NOTES AND QUERIES. Canara."-P. della Valle, vol. II. p. 601.
ABHORRENCE OF THE Cow.-In the Asam Hills 1672 :-"The strip of land Canara, the inhabit
and in Dardistân we come upon tribes who posiants of which are called Canarins, is fruitful in tively abhor the cow: it would be interesting to rice and other foodstuffs." -Baldæus, p. 98.
trace how far this prevails, and the causes. There is a good map in this work which shows
CRETINS.-In the neighbourhood of Lahor, at a Canara' in the modern acceptation of the term.
place called Pul Shah Daulah, over the Deg 1672:-"Description of Canara, and Journey to Nadi, are collected a number of idiots, deposited Goa.-This kingdon is one of the finest in India, i by their parents, and carried about by Muhammadall plain country near the sea, and even among the ans as a means of collecting alms: their facial mountains all peopled."-P. Vincenzo Maria,
appearance is that of a rat, and they are called p. 420.
Chuhar Shah Daulah. An audacious Frenchman Here 'the title seems to be applied in the modern
exhibited two in Paris in 1856, and called them manner, but the same author (p. 221) applies
Azteks of Central America. Can we get further Canara to the whole kingdom of Bisnagar.
information of this particular colony, and similar 1727:-"This Country of Canara is generally
colonies in other parts of India P-R. Cust, Lib. governed by a Lady, who keeps her Court at a
R. A8. Soc. Town called Baydour, two Days Journey from the Sea."-A. Hamilton, vol. I. p. 280.
AN ACCOUNT OF SHAH DAWLA'S CHUHÅS. CHEETA, 8., Hind, Chitd. The Felis jubata, or Abstracted from the Vernacular Settlement Report of Hunting Leopard, so called from its being com
Gujardt by Mirsa Asam Beg. monly trained to use in the chase. From Sansk. The shrine of Shah Dawlat is one of the most chitra, spotted.'
famous of the Panjab. This saint lived in Gujarat, 1563 :-"...... Chita, or, as we should say, which is called after his name Gujrat-i-Shah Ounce."-Garcia de Orta, Colloq. f. 36.
Dawlat. His tout, built of masonry, lies 50 1625 :-Hawkins in Purchas (vol. I. p. 218) at yarda ona of the town. Round it is an enclosure Akbar's Court calls the Cheetas "ounces for called Garhi Shah Dawlat, in which the attendants
of the shrine live. The man was an Afghan by 1862:-"The true Cheetah, the hunting leopard I descent, though the Gujars claim him as of their
game."
* Communiçated by direction of His Honour the Governor of the Panjab.
