A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

Note 308 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 4)

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

The English word to fish a mast or fishing rod, comes from the Spanish word used here, fajar; anciently pronounced as the Catalan faixar, to wrap or wind a sash, to swathe.

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