Chapter BOBACHEE CONNAH to BOMBAY of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

to be impossible, with all the Company’s Strength and Art, to make Bombay “a Mart of great Business.”—P. 83.

c. 1760.—“… one of the most commodious bays perhaps in the world, from which distinction it received the denomination of Bombay, by corruption from the Portuguese Buona-Bahia, though now usually written by them Bombaim.”—Grose, i. 29.

1770.—“No man chose to settle in a country so unhealthy as to give rise to the proverb That at Bombay a man’s life did not exceed two monsoons.”—Raynal (E. T., 1777), i. 389.

1809.—“The largest pagoda in Bombay is in the Black Town.… It is dedicated to Momba Devee … who by her images and attributes seems to be Parvati, the wife of Siva.”—Maria Graham, 14.