of Recon and Mogen (Mugg).
our course was S. and by E. which brought vs to the barre of Negrais.R.
Fitch, in Hakl. ii. 391.
c. 1590.To the S.E. of Bengal is a large country called Arkung to which
the Bunder of Chittagong properly belongs.Gladwins Ayeen, ed. 1800, ii. 4. [Ed. Jarrett, ii. 119] in
orig. (i. 388) Arkhang.
[1599.Arracan. See MACAO.
[1608.Rakhang. See CHAMPA.
[c. 1069.Aracan.
See PROME.
[1659.Aracan. See TALAPOIN.]
1660.Despatches about this time arrived
from Muazzam Khan, reporting his successive victories and the flight of Shuja to the country of Rakhang,
leaving Bengal undefended.Khafi Khan, in Elliot, vii. 254.
[c. 1660.The Prince.
sent his eldest son,
Sultan Banque, to the King of Racan, or Mog.(Bernier (ed. Constable), 109.]
c. 1665.Knowing
that it is impossible to pass any Cavalry by Land, no, not so much as any Infantry, from Bengale into
Rakan, because of the many channels and rivers upon the Frontiers
he (the Governor of Bengal) thought
upon this experiment, viz. to engage the Hollanders in his design. He therefore sent a kind of Ambassador
to Batavia.Bernier, E. T., 55 [(ed. Constable, 180)].
1673..
A mixture of that Race, the most accursedly
base of all Mankind who are known for their Bastard-brood lurking in the Islands at the Mouths of the
Ganges, by the name of Racanners.Fryer, 219. (The word is misprinted Buccaneers; but see Fryers
Index.)
1726.It is called by some Portuguese Orrakan, by others among them Arrakaon, and by
some again Rakan (after its capital) and also Mog (Mugg).Valentijn, v. 140.
1727.Arackan has a
Conveniency of a noble spacious River.A. Hamilton, ii. 30. ARBOL TRISTE, s. The tree or shrub, so called by Port. writers, appears to be the Nyctanthes arbor
tristis, or Arabian jasmine (N. O. Jasmineae), a native of the drier parts of India. [The quotations explain
the origin of the name.]
[c. 1610.Many of the trees they call tristes, of which they make saffron. Pyrard de Laval, Hak.
Soc., i. 411.
That tree called triste, which is produced in the East Indies, is so named because it blooms
only at night. Ibid. ii. 362; and see Burnells Linschoten, Hak. Soc. ii. 5862.
1624.I keep among
my baggage to show the same in Italy, as also some of the tree trifoe (in orig. Arbor Trisoe, a misprint
for Tristo) with its odoriferous flowers, which blow every day and night, and fall at the approach of day.
P. della Valle, Hak. Soc. ii. 406.]
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