Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.621
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.621
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c. 1490.—“The country (Pegu) is distant 15 days’ journey by land from another called Ava in which grow rubies and many other precious stones.”—Hier. di Sto. Stefano, u. s. p. 6.