Chapter MOONSHEE to MOOR of M by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

to Malacca.”—Raynal (tr. 1777), i. 210.

1781.—“Mr. Hicky thinks it a Duty incumbent on him to inform his friends in particular, and the Public in General, that an attempt was made to Assassinate him last Thursday Morning between the Hours of One and two o’Clock, by two armed Europeans aided and assisted by a Moorman. …”—Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, April 7.

1784.—“Lieutenants Speediman and Rutledge … were bound, circumcised, and clothed in Moorish garments.”—In Seton-Karr, i. 15.

1797.—“Under the head of castes entitled to a favourable term, I believe you comprehend Brahmans, Moormen, merchants, and almost every man who does not belong to the Sudra or cultivating caste. …”—Minute of Sir T. Munro, in Arbuthnot, i. 17.

1807.—“The rest of the inhabitants, who are Moors, and the richer Gentoos, are dressed in various degrees and fashions.”—Ld. Minto in India, page 17.

1829.—“I told my Moorman, as they call the Mussulmans here, just now to ask the drum-major when the mail for the Pradwan (?) was to be made up.”—Mem. of Col. Mountain, 2nd edition page 80.

1839.—“As I came out of the gate I met some young Moorish dandies on horseback; one of them was evidently a ‘crack-rider,’ and began to show off.”—Letters from Madras, page 290.