Storia do Mogor 265.5.3

265.5.3

In the village of Trivambur (Tiruvottiyur), a league and a half from San Thome, there was a wall enclosing a temple, and on the stones of this an inscription stating and pointing out the road or highway for reaching the sea, for the benefit of those coming from inland. At the present time that village is quite close to the sea. In the year one thousand six hundred and fifty-one (1651), it happened at San Thome that a fisherman went there to fish. His hook caught at the bottom, so that he was unable to pull it up. He dived to see what his hook had caught in, and found it was an anchor. He put a buoy to his line to mark the place, and went off to tell the governor of the place nearest the sea. Divers were sent to haul up the anchor. When they got it out they saw the fluke had been embedded in clay, a sign that in olden times the sea was distant, and the place was the site of a village. The hooks (barba) of the anchor had already disappeared from the saltness of the sea, and it was without a stock.