Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.704

c10.704

1516.—“Passing further forward . . . along the coast, there are two little rivers on which stand two places, the one called *Bacanor*, and the other *Bracalor*, belonging to the kingdom of *Narsyngua* and the province of *Tolinate* (*Tulu-nāda*, *Tuluva* or *S. Canara*). And in them is much good rice grown round about these places, and this is loaded in many foreign ships and in many of Malabar. . . .”—*Barbosa*, in Lisbon *Coll.* 294.