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# Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.545

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.545

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### [c10.545](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.545)

1578.—"In this city (Fez) there is a very great building which they call Daraçana, where the Christian captives used to labour at blacksmith's work and other crafts under the superintendence and orders of renegade headmen . . . here they made cannon and powder, and wrought swords, cross-bows, and arquebusses."—Marmol, \*Desc. General de Affrica\*, lib. iii. f. 92.

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