1616.—"... his son Sultan Coron, who he designed, should command in Deccan."—Sir T. Roe.
[ " "There is a resolution taken that Sultan Caronne shall go to the Decan Warres."—Ibid. Hak. Soc. i. 192.
[1623.—"A Moor of Dacàn."—P. della Valle, Hak. Soc. ii. 225.]
1667.—
"But such as at this day, to Indians known,
In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms."
Paradise Lost, ix. [1102-3].
1726.—"Decan [as a division] includes Decan, Cunkam, and Balagatta."—Valentijn, v. 1.
c. 1750.—"... alors le Nababe d'Arcate, tout petit Seigneur qu'il étoit, comparé au Souba du Dekam dont il n'étoit que le Fermier traiter (sic) avec nous comme un Souverain avec ses sujets."—Letter of M. Bussy, in Cambridge's War in India, p. xxix.
1870.—"In the Deccan and in Ceylon trees and bushes near springs, may often be seen covered with votive flowers."—Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, 200. N.B.—This is a questionable statement as regards the Deccan.