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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55, 1609-1616

Note 10 — Portuguese and Spanish Expedition Against the Dutch, 1615

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i.e., Kocchi. As in all foreign words ending with a vowel, the Portuguese have nasalised the “i.” In 1505 it was written “Coxi.” See A.C. Burnell’s note in Voyage of Linschoten (Hakluyt Society’s publications, London, 1885), i, p. 68. This city lies some thirty miles north of Cape Comorin.

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