[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.176 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.176 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.176 - **Language:** English ### [c10.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.176) 1508.—"The aljofar and pearls that (your Majesty) orders me to send you I cannot have as they have them in Ceylon and in Caille, which are the sources of them: I would buy them with my blood, and with my money, which I have only from your giving. The Sinabaffs (\*sinabafos\*), porcelain vases (\*porcellanas\*), and wares of that sort are further off. If for my sins I stay here longer I will endeavour to get everything. The slave girls that you order me to send you must be taken from prizes,\* for the heathen women of this country are black, and are mistresses to everybody by the time they are ten years old."—\*Letter of the Viceroy D. Francisco d' Almeida to the King, in Correa\*, i. 908-9. - [Previous: c10.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.175) - [Next: c10.177](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.177) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.176) · Pramāṇa