Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9171

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∗ The excellence of the Goa Mangoes is stated to be due to the care and skill of the Jesuits (Annaes Marítimos, ii. 270). In S. India all good kinds have Portuguese or Mahommedan names. The author of *Tribes on My Frontier*, 1883, p. 148, mentions the luscious *peirie* and the delicate *afoos* as two fine varieties, supposed to bear the names of a certain *Peres* and a certain *Affonso*.

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