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DECEMBER, 1908.]
SOME ANGLO-INDIAN TERMS.
SOME ANGLO-INDIAN TERMS FROM A XVIITH CENTURY MS.
BY SIE RICHARD C. TEMPLE, BART.
(Continued from p. 375.)
DUNGAREE.
Fol. 86. The Sick party is carried downe to y? Riuer Side in a hammaker, or course piece of Dungaree Cloth."
See Yule, s. v. Dungaree, a coarse cotton cloth. [N. and E. p. 22 has for 3rd June 1680: "Dungarees and Markett Clouts every 16 patch pay 1 fanam."]
DURIAN.
Fol. 150. They have Severall Sorts of very good ffruit in the Countrey (Queda). Duryans.
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Fol. 175. This Countrey [Acheen] affordeth Severall Excellent good fruites Namely Duryans.
See Yule, 8. v. Darian. [A large fruit with an offensive odour reported from all time by travellers to Indo-China.]
EAGLE WOOD.
Fol. 146. never faileth to returne y full Value (of what he received) in Agala wood they have the retalliation put to theire choice whether Agala or Elephants. See Yule, s. v. Eagle-wood. The quotation in the text is a good one. Vide ante, Vol. XXVIII. p. 196; Vol. XXIX. p. 335.
ELACHES.
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Fol. 158. ffrom Bengala
Elaches.
A silk cloth. See Yule, s. v. Piece-goods. See, also, Yule, s. v. Alleja: probably the same stuff is meant, the term in the text representing the vernacular alacha.
ENNORE.
Fol. 27. One of these Mallabars (an inhabitant of Enore) about 11 English miles Northward of ffort S' Georg's.
Not in Yale. [N. and E. p. 17 for 10th May 1680: "The Agent, &c., went to take the, air at Enoor."]
EUROPE.
Fol. 49. when laid w Europe tarre prove most Serviceable.
See Yule, s. v. Europe, for European. [The quotation is earlier than any of Yule's. N. and E. p. 6 quotes Streyusham Master's Commission to Joan Pereira de Faria as Envoy to the King of Barma and Pegu, 23rd February 1680, and has "Ballast for our Europe ships."
FAKEER.
Fol. 13. His retinue were as followeth
6000 naked ffackeers.
Fol. 14. As for yt before mentioned people called ffackeers, they are pilgrims but very Strange Ones.
Fol. 40. Sent y ffackeere out of dores
The fackeere Sat whout y: Street
dore.
See Yule, s. v. Fakeer. [The writer uses it in the sense of a Hindu ascetic.]
