Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15939
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15939
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c. 545.—“And those who navigate the Indian Sea are aware that *Zingium*, as it is called, lies beyond the country where the incense grows, which is called Barbary.”—*Cosmas*, in *Cathay*, &c., clxvii.