Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9242

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1598.—"In this towne many of the great earthen pots are made, which in India are called *Martauanas*, and many of them carryed throughout all India, of all sortes both small and great; some are so great that they will hold full two pipes of water. The cause why so many are brought into India is that they vse them in every house, and in their shippes insteede of caskes."—*Linschoten*, p. 30; [Hak. Soc. i. 101; see also i. 28, 268].