Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9136
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9136
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1536.—“. . . for there was come another catur with letters, in which the Captain of Diu urgently called for help; telling how the King (of Cambay) had equipped large squadrons in the Ports of the Gulf . . . alleging . . . that he was sending them to Mangalor to join others in an expedition against Sinde . . . and that all this was false, for he was really sending them in the expectation that the Rumis would come to Mangalor next September. . . .”—Correa, iv. 701.