Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15924

c10.15924

“. . . “I wrote him a letter to tell him . . . that, please God, in a short time the imperial fleet would come from Egypt to the *Sāmari*, and deliver the country from the hands of the infidels.”—*Sidi ‘Ali*, p. 83. [Vambéry, who in his translation betrays a remarkable ignorance of Indian geography, speaks (p. 24) of “*Samiri*, the ruler of Calcutta, by which he means Calicut.”]