a.—
1789.—
"But I'll give them 2000, with Bhanges and Coolies,
With elephants, camels, with hackeries and doolies."
Letters of Simpkin the Second, p. 57.
1803.—"We take with us indeed, in six banghys, sufficient changes of linen."—Ld. Valentia, i. 67.
1810.—"The bangy-wollah, that is the bearer who carries the bangy, supports the bamboo on his shoulder, so as to equipoise the baskets suspended at each end."—Williamson, V. M. i. 323.
[1843.—"I engaged eight bearers to carry my palankeen. Besides these I had four banghy-burdars, men who are each obliged to carry forty pound weight, in small wooden or tin boxes, called petarrahs."—Traveller's account, Carey, Good Old Days, ii. 91.]
b.—
c. 1844.—"I will forward with this by bhangy dâk a copy of Capt. Moresby's Survey of the Red Sea."—Sir G. Arthur, in Ind. Admin. of Lord Ellenborough, p. 221.