Query (i.) rámún (Hind.) or rama (Ladakhi) chhelli = the rama (special variety of goat) -goat; (ii.) or is Salbank mixing rama-shál (goat-shawl), the product, with the name of the animal producing the raw material?
This is the true reading, see note at the place, and J. R. As. Soc. N.S.
See Journ. As., Ser. II., tom. viii. 352.
See also De Candolle, Plantes Cultivées, p. 234.
"E foy dar no golfam do estreito de Magalhães." I cannot explain the use of this name. It must be applied here to the Sea between Banda and Timor.