Pidgin English?

The Englishman in China (London : Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1860).

"Two old Chinamen (European residents, who, having been home, are now returning to China) sit one on either side of me at dinner, keeping me in one continual state of astronishment at their lagnauge towards the native servatns on board, to whom they speak 'pidgin-English.' As yet I am quite unable to make out what they say (to their great amusement, by the bye) when asking the 'boys' (for these servants, like our post-boys, are alwyas 'boys') for anything. They tell me I shall soon learn how to speak that, but never Chinese - this I am very sorry to hear, but, at all events, I shall have a try." (p. 15)

From the Victorian journal Notes and queries‎ in 1850, "Pidgin or Pigeon English (10 S. v. 46. 90, 116, 174, 454). - I have frequently heared a near relative of mine, who arrived at Hongkong in 1851, and finally quitted the colony for England in 1853, refer to the embarrassments that at that date arose...Pidgin English." (p. 38)

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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 19 (1853)

Bayard Taylor, A visit to India, China, and Japan, in the year 1853 (1855)

George Francis Train, An American merchant in Europe, Asia and Australia (1857)

Robert Bowne Minturn, From New York to Delhi (1858)

Edward Henry Nolan, The illustrated history of the British empire in India and the East (1858)