meaning of ship's name Quedagh

[Thrasher, Allen]

Don,

Thanks for the tip.  The Wiki article says the ship was out of Surat.  I have paged two eds. of the trial proceedings and will see if they throw any light on this issue.

Allen

From: Donald R Davis Jr [mailto:drdavis at wisc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:58 AM
To: Thrasher, Allen
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] meaning of ship's name Quedagh

Allen,

Just a shot in the dark, but both names look to me as if they could both be permutations of Dravidian kuTaku/kuTakam=Coorg.  It is possible that the ship and man come from this region of South India?

Best, Don