Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.132

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c10.132

1696.—“We met likewise with shoals of Albicores (so call’d from a piece of white Flesh that sticks to their Heart) and with multitudes of Bonettoes, which are named from their Goodness and Excellence for eating; so that sometimes for more than twenty Days the whole Ship’s Company have feasted on these curious fish.”—*Ovington*, p. 48.

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