Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12887
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12887
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1553.—"Generally, although they have some millet and rice, all the people of the Isles of Maluco eat a certain food which they call *Sagum*, which is the pith of a tree like a palm-tree, except that the leaf is softer and smoother, and the green of it is rather dark."—*Barros*, III. v. 5.