Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.140
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.140
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1672.—"We met with those feathered Harbingers of the Cape . . . Albetrosses . . . they haue great Bodies, yet not proportionate to their Wings, which mete out twice their length."—*Fryer,* 12.