On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:27:12 -0600, Celia Summers <[email protected]> wrote: >Godowns Can't help with your query, but for what it's worth "godowns" were usually warehouses built in port areas in the Indian Ocean and Far East, invariably within the customs area, ie before goods had been cleared : they was used to store goods prior to being put on board ship, or the reverse, ie goods and materials which had been disembarked. So one wonders if there shouldn't have been the name of a port somewhere in that description of a destination ? The term is possibly a Eurpopean corruption of local terminology, but I've heard many suggestions over the years eg from pigeon English to a term describing where they were situated and thus where you had to go to get to them. Paul 50° 33' N, 2° 26' W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html