from a citie called Tanasary, in the Kingdom of Pegu.”—C. Frederike, in Hakl. ii. 359. See Lancaster.
c.
1590.—“In Kambayat (Cambay) a Nákhuda (Nacoda) gets 800 R. … In Pegu and Dahnasari, he gets
half as much again as in Cambay.”—Ain, i. 281.
[1598.—“Betweene two Islandes the coast runneth inwards
like a bow, wherein lyeth the towne of Tanassarien.”—Linschoten, Hak. Soc. i. 103. In the same page
he writes Tanassaria.
[1608.—“The small quantities they have here come from Tannaserye.”—Danvers,
Letters, i. 22.
[c. 1610.—“Some Indians call it (Ceylon) Tenasirin, signifying land of delights, or earthly
paradise.”—Pyrard de Laval, ii. 140, with Gray’s note (Hak. Soc.) quoted above.]
1727.—“Mr. Samuel
White was made Shawbandaar (Shabunder) or Custom-Master at Merjee (Mergui) and Tanacerin,
and Captain Williams was Admiral of the King’s Navy.”—A. Hamilton, ii. 64; [ed. 1744].
1783.—“Tannaserim. …
”—Forrest V. to Mergui, 4. TERAI, TERYE, s. Hind. tarai, ‘moist (land)’ from tar, ‘moist’ or ‘green.’ [Others, however, connect it
with tara, tala, ‘beneath (the Himalaya).’] The term is specially applied to a belt of marshy and j
ungly
land which runs along the foot of the Himalaya north of the Ganges, being that zone in which the moisture which has sunk into the talus of porous material exudes. A tract on the south side of the Ganges, now
part of Bhagalpur, was also formerly known as the Jungle-terry (q.v.).
1793.—“Helloura, though standing very little below the level of Cheeria Ghat’s top is nevertheless comprehended
in the Turry or Turryani of Nepaul … Turryani properly signifies low marshy lands, and is sometimes
applied to the flats lying below the hills in the interior of Nepaul, as well as the low tract bordering immediately
on the Company’s northern frontier.”—Kirkpatrick’s Nepaul (1811), p. 40.
1824.—“Mr. Boulderson said he
was sorry to learn from the raja that he did not consider the unhealthy season of the Terrai yet over …
I asked Mr. B. if it were true that the monkeys forsook these woods during the unwholesome months.
He answered that not the monkeys only, but everything which had the breath of life instinctively deserts
them from the beginning of April to October. The tigers go up to the hills, the antelopes and wild hogs
make incursions into the cultivated plain … and not so much as a bird can be heard or seen in the frightful
solitude.”—Heber, ed. 1844, 250–251. [The word is used as an adj. to describe a severe form of malarial
fever, and also a sort of double felt hat, worn when the sun is not so powerful as to require the use of a
sola topee.
[1879.—“Remittent has been called Jungle Fever. Terai Fever, Bengal Fever, &c., from the locality
in which it originated. … ”—Moore, Family Med. for India, 211.
[1880.—“A Terai hat is sufficient for a
Collector.”—Ali Baba, 85.]
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