From Goa, January 31, 1624

In this my excursion and absence from Goa, (which was short, but the pleasantest three Moneth's Travel that ever I had) besides the Royal Seats of Ikkerì and Manèl, describ'd in my last letter to you, I had the fortune to go as far as Calecut, to the other Royal Seat of Vikirà, call'd by his proper Title, il Samorino, where I have erected the Pillars of my utmost peregrination towards the South. Now on my Return, before I describe to you the Court of this Samorino and his Princesses, following the order of my Journeys I shall first inform you of my going to the famous Hermitage of Cadirì, and visiting Batinato, call'd King of the Gioghi, who lives at this day in his narrow limits of that Hermitage, impoverish'd by Venk-tapà Naieka.

December the tenth. Being yet in Mangalòr I took the Altitude of the Sun, whom I found to decline from the Zenith 35 degrees and 20 minutes. He was now in the 18th degree of Sagittary and declined towards the South 22 degrees 55′ 28″, which being subtracted from the 35 degrees 20′ wherein I found him, there remain 12 degrees 24′ 32″, and so far is Mangalòr distant from the Æquinoctial towards the North and hath the Northern Pole so much elevated. At this time the heat at Mangalòr is such as it is at Rome in the moneth of June, or the end of August.