This incident put us in great fear, but the Zamorin gave us good words, saying he was better pleased to find him a knave now, than after he had put trust in him.
On the 28th, the Zamorin came into the apartment where we were, and gave Mr Woolman two gold rings, and one to each of the rest; and next day he invited us to come to his tumbling sports.
In the afternoon of the 28th, the Francis and the Bee being near the shore abreast of Calicut, the Zamorin sent off a boat desiring to speak with me, but I was too far shot to the southwards before the message reached me.
John Stamford, a gunner, was likewise left to assist the Zamorinin his wars.
While on our way towards Cape Comorin, a Tony came aboard of us, with messengers from the Zamorinto our general, Captain William Keeling.
After hearing Da Gama boast about his country, the Zamorindismisses him, promising to consider a trade treaty with Portugal.
The interpreter, at Da Gama's request, then procures an audience from the Zamorin for his new master.
Because the Portuguese next threaten to attack the town, the Zamorin promptly sends Da Gama back with a cargo of spices and gems and promises of fair treatment hereafter.
Not only did the Muhammadan King of Ahmadabad send ambassadors to Albuquerque asking to make an alliance with him, but the Hindu Zamorin of Calicut, hitherto the principal foe of the Portuguese, also sued for peace.
After his return to Cochin the Viceroy despatched his gallant son to meet a fresh fleet which had been prepared by the Zamorin of Calicut.
The Hindu Rajas, with the exception of the Zamorin of Calicut, were greatly opposed to the monopoly by the Moplas of the commerce of their dominions.
Many Rajas in the interior sent envoys to the Portuguese commander, and the Zamorin himself earnestly sued for peace.
The advice was followed; the Zamorin was poisoned, and his murderer and successor allowed Albuquerque to build a fortress on the site he had chosen.
The aim of this embassy was to induce the Raja to attack the Zamorin of Calicut by land while the Portuguese attacked him by sea, but there was also a general desire expressed to make an alliance with the Raja.
From that time to the day of his final departure, in the afternoon of August 30th, he hovered about that city, standing off and on, as the state of the weather or the exigencies of his relations with the Zamorin required.
Immediately after the departure of Almeida, the grand Marshal Coutinho declared that, having come to India with the intention of destroying Calicut, he intended to turn to account the absence of the Zamorin from his capital.
But this abrupt change in the humour of the Zamorin was not at all agreeable to the Moorish and Arab traders, whose dealings made the prosperity of Calicut.
The Zamorin listened to Gama's discourse, and replied that he should be happy to consider himself the friend and brother of King Emmanuel, and that he would, by the aid of Gama, send ambassadors to Portugal.
Diaz brought back with him a curious letter from the Zamorin to the King of Portugal.
He formed an alliance with the rajas of Cochin and Cannanore against the zamorin of Calicut, and bombarded the latter in his palace.
In the second extract, Buchanan sums up the result of enquiries that he had made concerning the Zamorin and his family.
Eradi is the caste to which belongs the Zamorin Raja of Calicut.
The word Atiyoti has sometimes been derived from Atiyan, a slave or vassal, the tradition being that the Kattanat Raja, having once been ousted from his kingdom by the Zamorin of Calicut, sought the assistance of the Raja of Chirakkal.
He added that he was of the same caste as the Zamorin of Calicut.
The caste of Samantas, to which the Zamorin of Calicut belongs.
In the Madras Census Report, 1901, Pondan or Pogandan is recorded as a sub-caste of Idaiyans, who are palanquin-bearers to the Zamorin of Calicut.
A fleet of twenty-five sail now appeared in the offing, and Trimumpara told Cabral that their object was to attack him, and that they were sent by the zamorin of Calicut.
They resorted to every means to excite the hostility of the zamorin and his subjects against them.
The zamorin now threatened Trimumpara with his vengeance if he continued to harbor the Portuguese and to trade with Christian infidels.
The zamorin sent sixty armed barks to attack him, but a broadside or two and a favorable wind enabled him to make good his escape.
He sent word to the zamorin that, unless satisfaction were given for the late destruction of the Portuguese bazaar before noon, he would attack the city with fire and sword, and would begin with his fifty prisoners.
The zamorin fled, and Cabral withdrew with his victorious fleet to Cochin, a rich capital one hundred and fifty miles to the south of Calicut, where pepper was abundant and the king was poor.
Vasco, however, by his firm behaviour, managed to evade the machinations of his trade rivals, and induced the Zamorin to regard favourably an alliance with the Portuguese king.
The name is derived from Andur, a place which was once a fief under the Zamorin of Calicut.
But though himself a Hindu, the most important subjects of the Zamorin were the fanatical Moplas, the descendants of some Arab and Mohammedan settlers on the Malabar coast.
These men also made offer to the zamorin to make ordnance for him resembling those of the Portuguese, which they afterwards did as will appear in the sequel of this history, and for which service they were highly rewarded.
The zamorin was much offended by this answer of the rajah of Cochin; to whom he wrote a second time, advising him earnestly to abandon the Portuguese if he had any respect for his own welfare.
The rajah of Cochin, consequently, is bound to assist the zamorin in all his wars, and must always be of the same religion with his paramount.
After considering this message, the admiral ordered the messenger to prison, meaning to take revenge on him in case the zamorin should prove deceitful in this instance as he had already been in many others[14].
The zamorin was almost naked, having only a piece of white cotton round his waist, wrought with gold.
He, on the contrary, that all might know how little he esteemed the zamorin and all his power, made a descent one night on one of the towns of Repelim, to which he set fire.
The zamorin was unwilling to send the hostages required, alleging that they were old and sickly, and offered to send others who were better able to endure the hardships of living on board.
And when he objected that the zamorin might punish him for detaining the general contrary to his orders, they engaged so to deal with the zamorin as to obtain his pardon for that offence.
Intelligence of all this was conveyed to Cochin, and that the zamorin proposed to invade that city by the straits of Cambalan.
A treaty to this effect was accordingly concluded, by one of the articles of which the zamorin consented that the Christian religion might be preached in his dominions, and churches erected.
The zamorin and Furtado embraced in token of friendship, on which all the cannon in the fleet fired a salvo.
At this time the zamorinwas battering the walls of the town or petah, and desired that some Portuguese might be sent to his assistance.
At this time a rich merchant of Mangalore did great injury to the Portuguese, as he favoured the zamorin of Calicut though living in the dominions of the king of Narsinga who was in friendship with the Portuguese.
He accordingly sent his son Lorenzo with eleven vessels to endeavour to counteract the designs of the zamorin by destroying the fleet he had prepared.
The zamorin of Calicut, who was one of the contracting parties in this extensive confederacy for driving the Portuguese from India, performed his part of the agreement very coldly.
He then stated that he himself was the ambassador who had been empowered to arrange the terms of the treaty his sovereign desired to make with the Zamorin of Calecut.
He now requested the Zamorin to conclude one of the same character between their two nations; and, this being done, he would ask permission to land and carry on a trade with his people.
In Malabar was a custom by which the zamorin or king of Calicut had to cut his throat in public when he had reigned twelve years.
This being refused, he bombarded the city, burned the ships in the harbor, and compelled the Zamorin himself and all the native princes of the region to submit and acknowledge themselves feudatories of Portugal.
This lack of complaisance on the part of the Zamorin he attributed, not without reason, to the jealousy of the Arab merchants, whose swift-sailing dhows crowded the port.
Writing concerning theZamorin of Calicut about 1500 A.
The Zamorin of Calicut, and other Chiefs or Rajas, also continue to exercise the privilege of issuing such orders in regard to cases occurring in Malabar.
During the festival, one of them made a rapid journey to the Zamorin (about fifty miles distant), paid some fees, and established himself as the senior who had the right to carry the umbrella.
Properly speaking, only those whose investiture by the Zamorin or some other recognized chief is undisputed, and their descendants (in the female line) may use it.
Later on, when the relations of the Zamorin of Calicut with the Raja of Cochin became strained, he organised another yoga at Tirunavai for the Nambutiris who lived within his territory.
The Akattu Charna clan is divided into two sub-clans, one of which looks to the Zamorin as their lord, and the other owns lordship to minor lordlings, as the Tirumulpad of Nilambur.
By Wigram, [41] Menon is defined as "a title originally conferred by theZamorin on his agents and writers.
This is the country between the Kottapuzha and Porapuzha rivers, and is said to have been given by a Raja of Kurumbranad to a certain Ambadi Kovilagam Tamburatti (the stanam or title of the senior lady of the Zamorin Raja's family).
Rocambolle was angry about his cotton padding, Zamorin regretted the supper, and the other the youthful beauty whom he hoped to seduce.
The zamorin would not at first believe the information, having conceived a good opinion of their fidelity, yet sent four of his nairs to examine into the truth of the information.
The attempt to carry off these bulky articles was the cause of their destruction, as one of their slaves gave notice to the zamorin or king of Calicut of what was going on.
To aid him on this occasion, the zamorin sent him 24 pieces of great cannon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zamorin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
