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- 1800.0 (dbd:second)
- "No one has tried to clear that misconception [that Vasco da Gama landed at Kappad]. The government has even installed a memorial stone at the Kappad beach. Actually [Vasco da] Gama landed at Panthalayini in the [Kozhikode] district because there was a port there and Kozhikode did not have one. It does not have a port even now." (en)
- "We came in search of Christians and of spices!" (en)
- "Though the journey from this country [Kingdom of Calicut] to the Middle Kingdom is more than a hundred thousand li, yet people are very similar, happy, and prosperous, with identical customs." (en)
- "He was taken to a place [in Kozhikkode] where there were two Moors [Muslims] from Tunis, who knew how to speak Castilian and Genoese.
"What the Devil! What brought you here?" (en)
- "Kerala had many royal families which together may have more than 10,000 descendants. The Kochi family alone has more than 600. All these families had properties taken over by governments without compensation. Many of them are living in penury now. Shouldn't the state pay pensions to all of them then?" (en)
- "In the fifth year of the Yongle emperor [1407], the court ordered the principal envoy ... Zheng He ... to deliver an imperial mandate [a statement of formal investiture] to the king of [Calicut] and to bestow him a patent conferring a title of honour ... Zheng He went these in command of a large fleet of treasure-ships, and he erected a tablet with a pavilion over it and set up a stone which said: (en)
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