Chapter CHOP-CHOP. to CHOUL of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

to Daman.”—Sir T. Herbert, ed. 1665, p. 42.

1635.—“Chíval, a seaport of Deccan.”—Sádik Isfaháni, 88.

1727.—“Chaul, in former Times, was a noted Place for Trade, particularly for fine embroidered Quilts; but now it is miserably poor.”—A. Hamilton, i. 243.

1782.—“That St. Lubin had some of the Mahratta officers on board of his ship, at the port of Choul…he will remember as long as he lives, for they got so far the ascendancy over the political Frenchman, as to induce him to come into the harbour, and to land his cargo of military stores…not one piece of which he ever got back again, or was paid sixpence for.”—Price’s Observations on a Late Publication, &c., 14. In Price’s Tracts, vol. i.

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