Though many of the rank in which I was born, would have looked upon mercantile pursuits as wholly derogatory to their dignity, nameless and unknown, I laughed at such prejudices; and soon finding means to bring my talents into notice, I obtained an employment in which I was eminently successful; when one high in power, who had always borne me a deadly enmity, arrived in goa, and would, I felt confident, recognise me through all the disguises I might assume.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
Such as the Tulava for the parts between goa and Mangalore, and the Coorgi of the Rajahship of Coorg, not to mention the several varieties in the language of the hill-tribes.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
In goa the Portuguese consider it diuretic and use it especially in rheumatic affections.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera