Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9041

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851.—“Between this Sea (of Horkand) and the Sea called *Lāravī* there is a great number of isles; their number, indeed, it is said, amounts to 1,900; . . . the distance from island to island is 2, 3, or 4 parasangs. They are all inhabited, and all produce coco-palms. . . . The last of these islands is *Serendīb*, in the Sea of Horkand; it is the chief of all; they give the islands the name of *Dibajāt* (*i.e.* Dibas).—*Relation*, &c., tr. by *Reinaud*, i. 4-5.