Hobson-Jobson / A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive

by Sir Henry Yule; A. C. Burnell

1572.—

"Aqui se enxerga lá do mar undoso

Hum monte alto, que corre longamente

Servindo ao Malabar de forte muro,

Com que do Canará vive seguro."

Camões, vii. 21.

Englished by Burton:

"Here seen yonside where wavy waters play

a range of mountains skirts the murmuring main

serving the Malabar for mighty mure,