"In his note dated 3 September 1632, Peter Mundy writes, Of all the cities and towns that I have seen in India, none resembles so much those of Europe as this Banaroz doth a distance off, by reason of the many great and high spires that are in it, which belong to Pagodes or Hindoo Churches. Also when we came into it, we found it wondrous populous, good buildings, paved streets, but narrow and crooked."