The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c10.107

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There were always Portuguese merchants at Vijayanagara. Frederick says that they used “to sleepe in the streets, or under Porches, for the great heat which is there, and yet they never had any harme in the night”². The same traveller gives a list of the different kinds of cloths and other goods that were commonly sold at Vijayanagara by the Portuguese merchants: "The Merchandize that went every yeere from Goa to Bezeneger were Arabian Horses, Velvets, Damaskes, and Sattens, Armesine of Portugall, and pieces of China, Saffron and Scarlets: and from Bezeneger they had in Turkie for their commodities, Jewels, and Pagodies which be Ducats of gold."¹