Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s5.74

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¹ Sewell, *For. Emp.*, Appendix A.—Diamonds, pp. 399-401. The subject of mines, together with other details connected with the purely economic life of the people, will be dealt with in a separate dissertation. According to Caesar Frederick, ". . . . Also six days journey from Bezenager, is the place where they get Diamants; I was not there, but it was told me that it is a great place, compassed with a wall, and that they sell the earth within the wall, for so much a squadron, and the limits are set how deepe or how low they shall digge" *Purchas, Pilgrims*, X. p. 97.