Malabar, a district in the W. of Madras, sloping from the Ghâts down to the Indian Ocean, very rainy, covered with vast forests of teak; produces rice, coffee, and pepper.
Population (circa 1900) given as 2,653,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Makrizi, Taki-ed-din Ahmed el- * Malacca