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there now. I think, however, that the term Purgoo is probably an obsolete Anglo-Indian corruption of an Indian corruption of the Port. term barco, barca, a term used for any kind of sailing boat by the early Portuguese visitors to the East (e.g. DAlboquerque, Hak. Soc. ii. 230; Vasco da Gama, Hak. Soc. 77, 240).] [166970.A Purgoo: These Vse for the most part between Hugly and Pyplo and Ballasore: with these boats they carry goods into ye Roads on board English and Dutch, &c. Ships, they will liue a longe time in ye Sea, beinge brought to anchor by ye Sterne, as theire Vsual way is.MS. by T. B.[ateman], quoted by Anderson, English Intercourse with Siam, p. 266.] |
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