"Having in a Week’s time compleated my Business, returning the same way, we steered by the South side of the Bay, purposely to touch at Elephanto, so called from a monstrous Elephant cut out of the main Rock, bearing a Young one on its Back; not far from it the Effigies of an Horse stuck up to the Belly in the Earth in the Valley; from thence we clambered up the highest Mountain on the Island, on whose Summit was a miraculous Piece hewed out of solid Stone: It is supported with Forty two Corinthian Pillars, being a Square, open on all sides but towards the East; where stands a Statue with three Heads, crowned with strange Hieroglyphicks: At the North side in an high Portuco stands an Altar, guarded by Giants, and immured by a Square Wall; all along, the Walls are loaded with huge Giants, some with eight hands, making their vanquished Knights stoop for mercy. Before this is a Tank full of water, and beyond that another Place with Images. This seems to be of later date than that of Canorein [Kanheri], though defaced by the Portugals, who have this Island also…"
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(e) Miraculous work, defaced by Portuguese, John Fryer 5. John Fryer, A New Account of East India and Persia, Being Nine Years’ Travel 1672-1681, Ed., William Crooke, Asian Educational Services, 1992, vol. I, pp., 194-195 quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume III Chapter 5
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