Chapter HOSBOLHOOKUM to HUBSHEE of H by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

indito, quibus Habesh colluviem vel mixturam gentium denotat.”—Ludolphi, Hist. Aethiop. lib. i. c. i.

1750–60.—“The Moors are also fond of having abyssinian slaves known in India by the name of Hobshy Coffrees.”—Grose, i. 148.

1789.—“In India Negroes, Habissinians, Nobis (i.e. Nubians) &c. &c. are promiscuously called Habashies or Habissians, although the two latter are no negroes; and the Nobies and Habashes differ greatly from one another.”—Note to Seir Mutaqherin, iii. 36.

[1813.—“… the master of a family adopts a slave, frequently a Haffshee Abyssinian, of the darkest hue, for his heir.” —Forbes, Or. Mem. 2nd ed. ii. 473.]

1884.—“One of my Tibetan ponies had short curly brown hair, and was called both by my servants, and by Dr. Campbell, ‘a Hubshee.’ “I understood that the name was specific for that description of pony amongst the traders.”—Note by Sir Joseph Hooker.