Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.528
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.528
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1521.—“When these people saw the politeness of the captain, they presented some fish, and a vessel of palm-wine, which they call in their language *uraca* . . .”—*Pigafetta*, Hak. Soc. 72.