Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.471
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.471
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1860.—“And atte what place ye Knyghte came to Londe, theyre ye ffolke . . . worschyppen II Idolys in cheefe. Ye ffyrste is *Apollo*, where yē cheefe londynge place of theyr Metropole is hyght *Apollo-Bundar*. . . .”—Ext. from a MS. of Sir John Mandeville, lately discovered. (A friend here queries: ‘By Mr. Shapira?’)