Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9035

c10.9035

1610.—"I cannot imagine what the Hollanders meane, to suffer these Malaysians, *Chinesians*, and *Moores* of these countries, and to assist them in their free trade thorow all the Indies, and forbid it their owne seruants, countrymen, and Brethren, upon paine of death and losse of goods."—*Peter Williamson Floris, in Purchas*, i. 321.