Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15910
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15910
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1613.—“. . . Moreover it produces great abundance of *inhames*, or large subterranean tubers, of which there are many kinds, like the *camottes* of America, and these *inhames* boiled or roasted serve in place of bread.”—*Godinho de Eredia*, 19.