Vulgar words in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 - Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 (Page 1)
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The native passengers, who had remained, silent and dull, in a constrained position during the whole of the day, felt a load taken off their spirits as soon as they set foot on dry land; and in a trice the silence that had hitherto reigned was broken by a very Babel of tongues, among which could be distinguished the guttural jargon of the Scindian, the bastard dialect of Mahratti, of the Hindoo from the Deccan, and the ungrammatical _patois_ of Hindostani, which--although, when exclusively used, it marked out the Mussulman--was yet the _lingua franca_ of the whole party; but amidst the unceasing torrent of words, little could be distinguished, save when the ear was saluted with an outburst of nature's universal and unvaried language in the shape of a light-hearted laugh.