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Some of the palm trees in the area provide shade for beach resorts in Goa and Kerala.
The best resort beaches are on the Malabar coast at Kovalam, Goa, and, smaller but charming, Cochin.
Around 1548 St. Francis Xavier began his mission among the pearl fishermen of Goa, before he set sail for Japan.
To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .