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# Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.6

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.6

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### [c10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.6)

1585.—"It is a very fertile country, with great stoare of prouisioun; there are elephants in great number and \*abadas\*, which is a kind of beast so big as two great buls, and hath vppon his snowt a little horne."—\*Mendoza\*, ii. 311.

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