Chapter COLUMBO ROOT to COMORIN of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

16th century identified Kory with C. Comorin.

In 1 864 the late venerated Bishop Cotton visited C. Comorin in company with two of his clergy (both now mis sionary bishops). He said that having bathed at Hardwar, one of the most northerly of Hindu sacred places, he should like to bathe at this, the most southerly. Each of the chaplains took one of the bishop’s hands as they entered the surf, which was heavy; so heavy that his right-hand aid was torn from him, and had not the other been able to hold fast, Bishop Cotton could hardly have escaped.²

[1609.—“… very strong cloth and is called Cacha de Comoree.”—Dancers, Letters, i. 29.

[1767.—“The pagoda of the Cunnacomary belonging to Tinnevelly.”—Treaty, in Logan, Malabar, iii. 117.]

1817.—

“… Lightly latticed in
With odoriferous woods of Comorin.”

Lalla Rookh, Mokanna.

This probably is derived from D’Herbelot, and involves a confusion often made between Comorin and Comar — the land of aloes-wood.

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