Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15918
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15918
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1498.—“First Calicut whither we went. . . The King whom they call *Camolim* (for *Çamorim*) can muster 100,000 men for war, with the contingents that he receives, his own authority extending to very few.”—*Roteiro de Vasco da Gama*.