[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.9061 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9061 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9061 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9061](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9061) ∗ This Port was immediately outside the Straits, as appears from the description of Dom João de Castro (1541): “Now turning to the ‘Gates’ of the Strait, which are the chief object of our description, we remark that here the land of Arabia juts out into the sea, forming a prominent Point, and very prolonged. . . This is the point or promontory which Ptolemy calls Possidium. . . In front of it, a little more than a gunshot off, is an islet called the \*Ilheo dos Roboeens\*; because Roboa in Arabic means a pilot; and the pilots living here go aboard the ships which come from outside, and conduct them,” &c.—\*Roteiro do Mar Rozo\*, &c., 35. The Island retains its name, and is mentioned as Pilot Island by Capt. Haines in \*J. R. Geog. Soc.\* ix. - [Previous: c10.9060](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9060) - [Next: c10.9062](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9062) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9061](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9061) · Pramāṇa