Indian Antiquary Vol 33

SR No.: 032525
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 514
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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DECEMBER, 1904.)
SOME ANGLO-INDIAN TERMS.
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TODDY. Fol. 29. the Palmero tree affordeth that rare liquor formerly termed Palme-Wine, now vulgarly called Toddy, y! Palmito..... afford liquor alsoe .... called date Toddy, not soe good as y: Other, more lucious but soon Eager.
Fol. 40. another Sort there is [of arack] y distilled from Neep toddy and y! is commonly called Nipa de Goa. See Yule, .. v. Toddy. [The quotations are valuable for the different kinds.]
TOMBOLEE RIVER. Fol. 76. beinge timerous of driveinge too farre down vizy upon the Shoals of y! Biuer Tomboloe (where y! Riuer (Hagly] is most crooked).
Not in Yule. [Bat see Yule, 8. v. Tumlook.] [Now the Rúpnarain running into the Hugli at the James and Mary Shoal.]
TOOTN AGUE. Fol. 86. [The Orixas] withall soe jgnorant that they know not Silver from Tootanagga. Fol. 158. from China . ... Totanagga.
See Yule, 8. v. tootnague: spelter. [The "white copper" of China is meant in the text. The same trick as that hinted at in the text is still played upon the Nicobarese, who cannot usually distinguish between silver and tootnague, s. e., German silver.] See also ante, Vol. XXVI. p. 222 f., for a similar trick on Java by the Chinese in the 17th Century.
TRANQUEBAR Fol. 53. Porto Novo & Trincombar.
Fol. 78. That very yeare y. Danes came from Trincombar: (a fine Garrison of y! Kingo of Denmarks) the onely place they have in Asia 40 English leag! to the Southward of ffort S: George's .... The Danes findinge Small gaines to Jasne from this warre, did Anno Dom: 16 24: come downe from their Castle of Trincombar.... All through y! Simplicitie of a Mechanick fellow y! the Danes Entitled theire Comadore, who rendred himselfe as he was really a most ridiculous man to y mightie disgrace of there whole Nation & ffortification of Trincombarro.
Fol. 81. vntill they heard ffarther from the Castle of Trinoombar, See Yule, s. v. Tranquebar.
TRESSLETORR.Fol. 4. Here followeth y fig! of y! Pagod called Tressletore, 5 & miles to y! Noward of ffort S': Georg's.
Not in Yule. [An old pagoda, once famous, near Madras, known ander various forms, of which Trivitore in Wheeler's Old Madras, p. 528, is as near as may be expected to the correct form.]
TURBAN. Fol. 70. he had pulled off his gold Turbant.
Fol. 165. and from her is Sent to y! English Commander a Silke Suite of cloths w a Turbant after the Malay fashion.
Fol. 176. Each of them wore his Turbat after the Arabian mode. See Yule, 8. v. Turban.
TUTICORIN. Fol. 91. many of them have y! Shackles on theire arms made of Chanke, a great Shell brought from Tutacree (a Dutch ffactorie neare y! Cape Comorin).
Seo Yule, 8. v. Tuticorin.