Cry "Amucke" (1606)

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AN EXACT DISCOURSE...EAST INDIANS, AS WELL CHYNESES...
by Edmund Scott
London: W. White
1606
(Early English Books Online)

   This details travels between 1602 and 1605.  There are no page numbers--some numbers appear handwritten.

Pg. 22 handwritten):  ..._Mullato_...
("Mullato" is here many times.  OED has 1595 for "Mulatow," and this would be next--ed.)

Pg. (EEBO screen 32):  ...Junke.
(OED has 1613 for "junk"=vessel--ed.)

Pg. (EEBO screen 49):  ...he will presently draw his weapon, and cry _Amucke_, which is as much to say, _I am resolved_: not sparing to murther either man, woman, or childe which can possibly come at, & he that killeth most, dieth with greatest honor & credit.



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