Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.226
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.226
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1680.—"This Tavoga is an exceeding pleasant Island, abounding in all manner of fruits, such as Pine-apples . . . Albecatos, Pears, Mammes."—*Capt. Sharpe, in Dampier*, iv.