Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.209
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.209
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1593.—"In this River (of Guayaquill) and all the Rivers of this Coast, are great abundance of Alagartoes . . . . persons of credit have certified to me that as small fishes in other Rivers abound in scoales, so the Alagartoes in this . . . . "—*Sir Richard Hawkins, in Purchas, iv. 1400.*