The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c25.86

v1.c25.86

The latter was living in a small fort at the mouth of the river Colerun. “He had seene his eighties, and was a man of great authority among his subjects, feared by everybody” ⁶. “Colgana (Solaga), a great man, received us with great kindnesse”, says Fr. Pimenta himself. “Hee is old and severe, and hath caused Crocodiles to bee put in his River for his securitie, charging them not to hurt his owne people. They nevertheless killed a man; whereupon I knowe not by what arts hee tooke two of them which were the malefactors, and put chaines about