Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.404

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1727.—“In January, 1664, my Lord (Marlborough) went back to England . . . and left Sir Abraham with the rest, to pass the westerly Monsoons, in some Port on the Coast, but being unacquainted, chose a desolate Island called Anjadwa, to winter at. . . . Here they stayed from April to October, in which time they buried above 200 of their Men.”—A. Hamilton, i. 182. At p. 274 the name is printed more correctly Anjediva.