Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.408
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.408
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c. 1292.—“Angamanain is a very large Island. The people are without a King and are idolators, and are no better than wild beasts . . . they are a most cruel generation, and eat everybody that they can catch if not of their own race.”—*Marco Polo*, Bk. iii. c. 13.