Storia do Mogor 233: Dhákah.

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Dhakah is the largest town in, and the capital of the province of Bengal. It is in this vast region that they produce the prodigious quantity of fine white cloth and silken stuffs of which the nations of Europe and elsewhere transport annually several shiploads. This town has under its rule many adjacent countries, as far as Goaty (Gauhati) and the fortress of Azo (Hajo), near to Achami (Assam) and to Chatigan (Chatgaon), which are on the frontier of the Racan (Arakan) kingdom. Owing to the proximity of these countries, a garrison of forty thousand horse is maintained. Dhakah is at twenty-three degrees thirty minutes of latitude, and one hundred and thirty-three degrees forty minutes of longitude.