[Ads-l] Antedating of "American Indian"

[Shapiro, Fred]

American Indian (OED 1702)

1684 Samuel Butler _Hudibras_ 216 (Early English Books Online)  The _American Indians_ call a great Bird they have, with a white head a _Penguin_; which signify's the same thing in the _Brittish_ Tongue.

Fred Shapiro

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