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Here, the surf subsides enough for comfortable swimming, and hammock and palapa shade rentals are available.
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
However, enjoying a lunch of fresh fish, followed by a siesta in a hammock strung between two palms makes the trip absolutely worthwhile.
Hammocks come in a remarkable variety of styles, colors, and sizes (a miniature model for your cat, a double-wide hammock for the adventurous).
A ritualistic mark of bravery for Carib warriors was cannibalism, and it’s for this that history most remembers the Indians who invented the hammock and gave their name to the Caribbean.