Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.424
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.424
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1598.—"There are in India other wonderful and thicke trees, whereof Shippes are made: there are trees by Cochiin, that are called *Angelina*, whereof certaine scutes or skiffes called Tones [Doney] are made . . . it is so strong and hard a woode that Iron in tract of time would bee consumed thereby by reason of the hardness of the woode."—*Linschoten*, ch. 58 [Hak. Soc. ii. 56].