Crossword-Solution: GOANESE 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

After six weeks' rest, having received orders to join his regiment, which was then stationed at Baroda, he engaged some Goanese servants and made the voyage thither in a small vessel called a pattymar.

Thus at Baroda, instead of attending the services of the garrison chaplain, he sat under the pleasant Goanese priest who preached to the camp servants; but he did not call himself a Catholic.

Except in Goa, on the west coast of India, no considerable number of settlers established themselves at any point; and the Goanese settlement is the only instance of the formation of a mixed race, half Indian and half European.

Without another word to the Goanese he saluted the lot of us with a sweep of his arm, turned on his heel and vanished--not stopping in his hurry to put on the sandals that lay on the door-step.

The time to start arrived and passed; hot passengers continued spurting for the train at intervals--all sorts of passengers--English, Mauritius--French, Arab, Goanese, German, Swahili, Indian, Biluchi, one Japanese, two Chinamen, half-breeds, quarter-breeds of all the hues from ivory to dull red, guinea-yellow, and bleached out black; but the second-class compartment facing our door remained empty.