Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15940
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15940
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c. 940.—“The land of the Zanj begins at the channel issuing from the Upper Nile” (by this the Jubb seems meant) “and extends to the country of Sofāla and of the Wakwak.”—*Mas’ūdī*, *Prairies d’Or*, iii. 7.