Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13016

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1855.—"Our pilgrim ship . . . was a Sambuk of about 400 *ardébs* (50 tons), with narrow wedge-like bows, a clean water-line, a sharp keel, undecked except upon the poop, which was high enough to act as a sail in a gale of wind. We carried 2 masts, imminently raking forward, the main considerably longer than the mizen, and the former was provided with a large triangular latine. . . ."—*Burton, Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah*, i. 276; [Memorial ed. i. 188].