[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.12885 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12885 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12885 - **Language:** English ### [c10.12885](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12885) 1522.—"Their bread (in Tidore) they make of the wood of a certain tree like a palm-tree, and they make it in this way. They take a piece of this wood, and extract from it certain long black thorns which are situated there; then they pound it, and make bread of it which they call \*sagu\*. They make provision of this bread for their sea voyages."—\*Pigafetta\*, Hak. Soc. p. 136. This is a bad description, and seems to refer to the \*Sagwire\*, not the true sago-tree. - [Previous: c10.12884](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12884) - [Next: c10.12886](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12886) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12885](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12885) · Pramāṇa