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# Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9120

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9120

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### [c10.9120](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9120)

\[c. 1848.—“The mandarin-boat, or ‘Smug-boat,’ as it is often called by the natives, is the most elegant thing that floats.”—\*Berncastle, Voyage to China, ii. 71.\*

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