Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.4

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c10.4

1544.—"Now the King of Tartary was fallen upon the city of Pequin with so great an army as the like had never been seen since Adam's time; in this army . . . were seven and twenty Kings, under whom marched 1,800,000 men . . . with four score thousand Rhinoceroses (*donde partirão com oitenta mil badas*).—*Ibid.* (orig. cap. cvii.) in *Cogan*, p. 149.

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