Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12891

1727.—"And the inland people subsist mostly on *Sagow*, the Pith of a small Twig split and dried in the Sun."—*A. Hamilton*, ii. 93; [ed. 1744].