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has a port and some land in Kathiawar.

Gen. Keatinge writes: “The members of the Sidi’s family whom I saw were, for natives of India, particularly fair.” The old Portuguese writers call this harbour Danda (or as they write it Damda), e.g. João de Castro in Primeiro Roteiro, p. 48. His rude chart shows the island fort.

JUNGLE, s. Hind. and Mahr. jangal, from Skt. jangala (a word which occurs chiefly in medical treatises). The native word means in strictness only waste, uncultivated ground; then, such ground covered with shrubs, trees or long grass; and thence again the Anglo-Indian application is to forest, or other wild growth, rather than to the fact that it is not cultivated. A forest; a thicket; a tangled wilderness. The word seems to have passed at a rather early date into Persian, and also into use in Turkistan. From Anglo-Indian it has been adopted into French as well as in English. The word does not seem to occur in Fryer, which rather indicates that its use was not so extremely common among foreigners as it is now.

c. 1200.—“… Now the land is humid, jungle (jangalah), or of the ordinary kind.”—Susruta, i. ch. 35.

c. 1370.—“Elephants were numerous as sheep in the jangal round the Ráí’s dwelling.”—Táríkh-i-Fíroz-Sháhí, in Elliot, iii. 314.

c. 1450.—“The Kings of India hunt the elephant. They will stay a whole month or more in the wilderness, and in the jungle (Jangal).”—Abdurrazak, in Not. et Ext. xiv. 51.

1474.—“… Bicheneger. The vast city is surrounded by three ravines, and intersected by a river, bordering on one side on a dreadful Jungel.”—Ath. Nikitin, in India in XVth Cent., 29.

1776.—“Land waste for five years … is called Jungle.”—Halhed’s Gentoo Code, 190.

1809.—“The air of Calcutta is much affected by the closeness of the jungle around it.”—Ld. Valentia, i. 207.

1809.—

“They built them here a bower of jointed cane,
Strong for the needful use, and light and long
Was the slight framework rear’d, with little pain;
Lithe creepers then the wicker sides supply,
And the tall jungle grass fit roofing gave
Beneath the genial sky.”

Curse of Kehama, xiii. 7.

c. 1830.—“C’est là que je recontrai les jungles … j’avoue que je fus très désappointé.”—Jacquemont, Correspond. i. 134.

c. 1833-38.—

“L’Hippotame au large ventre

Habite aux Jungles de Java,

Où grondent, au fond de chaque antre

Plus de monstres qu’on ne rêva.”

Theoph. Gautier, in Poésies Complètes, ed. 1876, i. 325.

1848.—“But he was as lonely here as in his jungle at Boggleywala.”—Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ch. iii.

„ “ ‘Was there ever a battle won like Salamanca?” Hey, Dobbin? But where was it he learnt his art? In India, my boy. The jungle is the school for a general, mark me that.’ ”—Ibid., ed. 1863, i. 312.

c. 1858.—

“La bête formidable, habitante des jungles S’endort, le ventre en l’air, et dilate ses ongles.”—Leconte de Lisle.

„ “Des djungles du Pendj-Ab

Aux sables du Karnate.”—Ibid.

1865.—“To an eye accustomed for years to the wild wastes of the jungle, the whole country presents the appearance of one continuous well-ordered garden.”—Waring, Tropical Resident at Home, 7.

1867.—“… here are no cobwebs of plea and counterplea, no jungles of argument and brakes of analysis.”—Swinburne, Essays and Studies, 133.

1873.—“Jungle, derived to us, through the living language of India, from the Sanskrit, may now be regarded as good English.”—Fitz - Edward Hall, Modern English, 306.

1878.—“Cet animal est commun dans les forêts, et dans les djengles.”—Marre, Kata-Kata-Malayou, 83.

1879.—“The owls of metaphysics hooted from the gloom of their various jungles.”—Fortnightly Rev. No. clxv., N.S., 19.

JUNGLE-FEVER, s. A dangerous remittent fever arising from the malaria of forest or jungle tracts.

1808.—“I was one day sent to a great distance, to take charge of an officer who had been seized by jungle-fever.”—Letter in Morton’s L. of Leyden, 43.

JUNGLE-FOWL, s. The popular name of more than one species of those birds from which our domestic poultry are supposed to be descended; especially Gallus Sonneratii, Temminck, the Grey Jungle-fowl, and Gallus ferrugineus, Gmelin, the Red Jungle-fowl. The former belongs only to Sout hern India; the