Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.204

c10.204

1539.—"All along this River, that was not very broad, there were a number of Lizards (lagartos), which might more properly be called Serpents . . . with scales upon their backs, and mouths two foot wide . . . . there be of them that will sometimes get upon an almadia . . . and overturn it with their tails, swallowing up the men whole, without dismembering of them."—*Pinto, in Cogan's tr. 17 (orig. cap. xiv.)*