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The East India Voyager, or ten minutes advice to the outward bound choose

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[Ind] E. Roberts East India Voyager 105: [W]ithout a competent knowledge of Hindostanee he can never hope to succeed in any public department, or to emerge from a state of Griffinhood, as it is called.
at griffinhood (n.) under griffin, n.1
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