[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 75.8 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 75.8 Travels in India (Ball) 75.8 - **Language:** English ### [75.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.75.8) Of this paste they made tapers, which they used in the churches during the service at the annual festivals, and as soon as the tapers were lighted all the church was perfumed with an odour of cinnamon. They have often sent them to Lisbon for the King’s chapel. Formerly the Portuguese procured cinnamon from the countries belonging to Rajas in the neighbourhood of Cochin. But since the Dutch have taken this town, and have become masters of the coast of Ceylon, where the cinnamon grows, seeing that that of the neighbourhood of Cochin injured the trade, because, not being so good as that of Ceylon, it was sold at a low price, they destroyed all the places where it grew, and thus there is no cinnamon now but that of Ceylon, which is altogether in their hands. When the Portuguese held this coast the English bought cinnamon from them and ordinarily paid 50 mahmūdis for a maund. - [Previous: 75.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.75.7) - [Next: 76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.76) - [Up: 75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.75) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.75.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.75.8) · Pramāṇa