Chapter COBRA LILY to COCHIN-CHINA of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

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[1606.—“Att Cowcheen which is a place neere Callicutt is stoare of pepper. …”— Birdwood, First Letter Book, 84.

[1610.—“Cochim bow worth in Surat as sceala and kannikee.”—Danvers, Letters, i. 74.]

1767.—“From this place the Nawaub marched to Koochi-Bundur, from the inhabitants of which he exacted a large sum of money.”—H. of Hydur Naik, 186.

COCHIN-CHINA, n.p. This country was called by the Malays Kuchi, and apparently also, to distinguish it from Kuchi of India (or Cochin), Kuchi-China, a term which the Portuguese adopted as Cauchi- China; the Dutch and English from them. Kuchi occurs in this sense in the Malay traditions called Sijara Malayu (see J. Ind. Archip., v. 729). In its origin this word Kuchi is no doubt a foreigner’s form of the Annamite Kuu-chön (Chin. Kiu-Ching, South Chin. Kau-Chen), which was the ancient name of the province Thanh’-hoa, in which the city of Huë has been the capital since 1398.³

1516.—“And he (Fernão Peres) set sail from Malaca … in August of the year 516, and got into the Gulf of Concam china, which he entered in the night, escaping by miracle from being lost on the shoals. …”—Correa, ii. 474.

[1524.—“I sent Duarte Coelho to discover Canchim China.”—Letter of Albuquerque to the King, India Office MSS., Corpo Chronologico, vol. i.]

c. 1535.—“This King of Cochinchina keeps always an ambassador at the court of the King of China; not that he does this of his own good will, or has any content therein, but because he is his vassal.”—Sommario de’ Regni, in Ramusio, i. 336v.

c. 1543.—“Now it was not without much labour, pain, and danger, that we passed these two Channels, as also the River of Ventinau, by reason of the Pyrats that usually are encountred there, nevertheless we at length arrived at the Town of Manaquilen, which is scituated at the foot of the Mountains of Chomay (Comhay in orig.), upon the Frontiers of the two Kingdoms of China, and Cauchenchina (da China e do Cauchim in orig.), where the Ambassadors were well received by the Governor thereof.”—Pinto, E. T., p. 166 (orig. cap. cxxix.).

c. 1543.—“CAPITULO CXXX. Do recebimento que este Rey da Cauchenchina fez ao-Embaixador da Tartaria na villa de Fanau grem.”—Pinto, original.

1572.—

“Ves, Cauchichina esta de oscura fama,
E de Ainão vê a incognita enseada.”

Camões, x. 129.

By Burton:

“See Cauchichina still of note obscure and of Ainam you undiscovered Bight.”

1598.—“This land of Cauchinchina is devided into two or three Kingdomes, which are vnder the subiection of the King of China, it is a fruitfull countrie of all necessarie prouisiouns and Victuals.”—Linschoten, ch. 22; [Hak. Soc. i. 124].

1606.—“Nel Regno di Coccincina, che … è alle volte chiamato dal nome di Anan, vi sono quattordici Provincie piccole. …”Viaggi di Carletti, ii. 138.

[1614.—“The Cocchichinnas cut him all in pieces.”—Foster, Letters, ii. 75.

[1616.—“27 pecull of lignum aloes of Cutcheinchenn.”—Ibid. iv. 213.]

1652.—“Cauchin- China is bounded on the West with the Kingdomes of Brama; on the East, with the Great Realm of China; on the North extending towards Tartary; and on the South, bordering on Camboia.”— P. Heylin, Cosmographie, iii. 239.

1727.—“Couchin-china has a large Seacoast of about 700 Miles in Extent … and it has the Conveniency of many good Harbours on it, tho’ they are not frequented by Strangers.”—A. Hamilton, ii. 208; [ed. 1744].