Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.419

c10.419

1623.—Della Valle describes three kinds of shoulder-borne vehicles in use at Goa: (1) *reti* or nets, which were evidently the simple hammock, *muncheel* or *dandy*; (2) the *andor*; and (3) the palankin. "And these two, the palankins and the *andors*, also differ from one another, for in the *andor* the cane which sustains it is, as it is in the *reti*, straight; whereas in the palankin, for the greater convenience of the inmate, and to give more room for raising his head, the cane is arched upward like this, ∩. For this purpose the canes are bent when they are small and tender. And those vehicles are the most commodious and honourable that have the curved canes, for such canes, of good quality and strength to bear the weight, are not numerous; so they sell for 100 or 120 *pardaos* each, or about 60 of our *scudi*."—*P. della Valle*, ii. 610.