[c. 1612.—"... if I did not he would take away from me the key of the gadong."—Danvers, Letters, i. 195.]
1613.—"As fortelezas e fortificações de Malayos ordinariamente erão aedifficios de matte entaypado, de que havia muytas casas e armenyas ou godoens que são aedifficios sobterraneos, em que os mercadores recolhem as roupas de Choromandel per il perigo de fogo."—Godinho de Eredia, 22.
1615.—"We paid Jno. Dono 70 taies or plate of bars in full payment of the fee symple of the gadonge over the way, to westward of English howse, whereof 100 taies was paid before."—Cocks's Diary, i. 39; [in i. 15 gedonge].
[ " "An old ruined brick house or godung."—Foster, Letters, iii. 109.
[ " "The same goods to be locked up in the gaddones."—Ibid. iii. 159.]
1634.—
"Virão das ruas as secretas minas
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Das abrazadas casas as ruinas,
E das riquezas os gudões desertos."