Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9240

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c10.9240

1508.—"The *lac* (*lacre*) which your Highness desired me to send, it will be a piece of good luck to get, because these ships depart early, and the vessels from Pegu and Martaban come late. But I hope for a good quantity of it, as I have given orders for it."—*Letter from the Viceroy Dom Francisco Almeida to the King. In Correa*, i. 900.

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