I searched the dhow everywhere, but could find no trace of the vegetable.
At this moment, just when the dhow was yet quivering with the strain, I noticed an expression of abject fear on the face of Ustâni.
As they never by any chance thought of mooring her both stem and stern, the dhow generally changed ends rapidly, shipping considerable water in the process.
Everything was shut off hastily, and an instant later we and the dhowsmashed up high and dry on a cozy mud beach!
We embarked about noon, storing our native carriers and effects aboard a dhowhired for the occasion.
As the dhow was in no respects built on such nervous lines, she did occasionally some fancy and splashing curves.
As a usual thing four vociferous figures clung desperately to a rope passed around one of the snubbing-posts ashore, while an old man shrieked syllables at them from the dhow itself.
When everything was aboard, that dhow was pretty well down, but still well afloat.
A dhow was on the point of sailing, in which several friends had taken a passage.
The dhow never reached her destination, and we have every reason to believe that she foundered with all on board.
Three times during the six months the dhow had gone back to Calcutta, to fetch fresh supplies of goods and to take in another cargo of rice; while the trader proceeded higher up the river, in his own boats.
In addition to the European and Indian goods carried, the dhow was laden with rice, for which there was a considerable demand at most of the villages.
The crews of these boats lived on board the dhow until their services were required, helping in its navigation and aiding the crew when the wind dropped and sweeps were got out.
My own boat and the dhow are both there, and I shall at once work up all the rivers, and set things going again.
So I don't want the money now and, suppose the dhow were to be lost going up, the cash might go with it.
As the dhow came in yesterday, I can spare both our boats; and shall, of course, ship the goods here on board the big craft.
He went ashore as soon as thedhow cast anchor, Stanley remaining on board.
The oars, languidly though they were wielded, cut the water, and the dhow began slowly to move.
Early one morning, about fifty miles out of Jeddah, I boarded a becalmed dhow and found them with the dregs of one empty water-skin between a dozen men.
Good money is paid at Cowes to see no more spirited sailing--we had to put a shot across the bows of the leading dhow before they would abandon the race.
However, the signal was repeated, and I had to have the dhow alongside.
Their bodies would, no doubt, have been put over the side when the dhow was out of sight, and their rifles sold inland at a fancy price.
Each dhow as she was cleared had to make for the shore and dismast or beach so that she could not steal out at night and add to the difficulties of the blockade.
The object-lesson which we gave the Arabs at Um-Lejj put a check to their irresponsible sniping of boats and landing-parties, though one could always expect a little trouble with an Arab dhow running contraband for the Turks.
The Idrisi has an agent there, and it should not be difficult to pick up an Asiri dhow returning down the coast to Gîzân, which is the port for Sabbia.
That dhow stood out to sea as if making for the ship and then proceeded along the coast.
He went alongside without hailing or stopping the dhow in any way, the wind being light and the craft scarcely forging ahead.
On the 3rd of December a dhowwas sighted flying French colours.
There were then visible on board the dhow four men, two aft and two forward, all armed with the usual Arab swords and creeses.
He was the sole survivor of the crew of some dhow or bunder-boat, they said.
That could hardly be, unless the same ship or dhow were visible from their own boat, and none had been seen.
Otherwise, he might be picked up, but he would have to keep afloat all night to do that, unless he had the extraordinary luck to be seen by dhow or ship before dark.
An Arab dhow was seen on the lake, but it kept well out of the way.
For emergencies after the third day nothing would be left, so that, if on reaching the sea we did not at once find a dhow or other boat, and that with provisions, we should still be lost.
They were able to see Selefke, and to recognise through the glasses a dhow in the river there, but it was some way inland.
Meanwhile I propose to walk boldly into the camp, salute Pereira, pass myself off as a slaver with a dhow at the mouth of the river, and say that I have come to buy slaves, and above all to bid for the white girl.
Did he not send a note to Captain Pierre, whose dhowlies in the harbour yonder, hailing from Madagascar?
But never a boat nor dhow was to be seen from the outlook.
No wilder shout ever rang out as we boarded a dhow 'mid smoke and blood.
In a few days the little seaport town of Benzert came in sight, and, soon afterwards, the Arab dhow was riding at anchor off the mole, about half a mile from the shore.
Black Ali saw that pursuit was useless, for the distance between him and the runaway dhow was ever growing greater.
The pursuing vessel's progress depended solely on the wind; the dhow had added propulsive power in the strong arms of her men.
Slowly and steadily the dhow swung round, until her bows were pointing seawards; then they set to with a will, pulling a long, even stroke that sent them rapidly through the waves.
Nearer and nearer came the approaching boat and, by the time the dhow was under way, it was little more than three hundred yards astern.
In reality it probably gives a hint of the necessary, dangerous, and exciting work of slave-dhow chasing which gives employment to our ships on the African coast.
Mr. Smith' was no doubt a petty officer who was told off to carry the chronometer for a boat's crew sent to search for a slave-dhow up some equatorial estuary.
Probably the dhow was found, and the Arabs who manned it gave so stout a resistance that 'Mr. Smith' and his men had other things to do than take care of chronometers before they could overcome them.
There was a dhowbeating round the corner of an island.
We had had some firing a few days ago at presumptive stores, also at a dhow and lighter dimly descried (they were in the papyrus-fringed labyrinth of a boat-passage).
Then we started away to look for a supposed dhow in likely covers of creeks or inlets, but we drew these blank also.
With promptness every man on the steamer emptied his rifle at the mark, and continued the fusillade till the dhowwas deserted.
The blaze grew rapidly, and showed in its heart the outline of a dhow with human figures on it.
There seemed, however, a good many dhow coasters dodging about in and among the reefs, and from these Kettle presently drew a deduction.
If we break up some firebars for shot, they'll smash the side of any dhow in the Red Sea.
And there remembrance grew blank altogether, until it connected with Captain Dove, on the deck of a slaving-dhow far out of sight of any land.
She knew now that he really looked upon her as a mere chattel, with a cash value--just as if she had been one of the hapless cargo of human cattle confined in the pestiferous hold of the dhow on whose deck he had found her at play.
I despatched my Arab interpreter by a dhow to Zanzibar, with a very earnest request to Capt.
In a short time I marched them out into the street, and to the beach; saw them all on board, and the canvas hoisted, and the dhow speeding westward on her way to Bagamoyo.
They would have, though, if that slaving-dhow hadn't put in to investigate us.
Off to northward, a native dhow was beating down-wind with full-bellied lateen sail, with matting over its hatches.
The dhow was already bumping fearfully on the reef and rapidly going to pieces.
By midday they were about fifteen miles south of Brava, but the wind was falling, and the dhow now fast filling.
The dhow has a four miles' start and goes swinging along at a wonderful rate.
As speedily as possible the dhow had been put in charge of Harry Milvaine; probably three hours had scarcely elapsed ere she and the gunboat parted company.
The boats were silently lowered before they came in sight of the dhow, therefore before the dhow could see the Bunting.
He was quite uneasy when a steamer straight from Zanzibar and Seychelles came in, and reported that no slavedhow with a prize crew had been seen at the former town.
For a few seconds this part of the dhow bristled with spears, and one or two of Harry's men succumbed to the lunges and fell to the deck.
Had the wind fallen earlier, this dhow would soon have been a prize; but as it did not, she had shown them a clean pair of heels, and might now be anywhere.
They must have thought the dhow foundered at sea, or been lost among the breakers and every one drowned.
The dhow went round with terrible flapping of her enormous sails, and much creaking of blocks, her great wings almost dragging the vessel on her beam ends.
The dhow brought us a pack of not less than thirty-two dogs, in charge of two keepers, who were the bearers of greetings to us from their master, Lord Clinton.
In 1881 the gallant Captain Brownrigg was killed in a struggle with an Arab slaver, owing chiefly to his own punctilious respect for the French flag under which the dhow was sailing.
The dhow replied by a volley, and, as Lieutenant Fegan turned his nine-pounder gun upon her, she left the small boat and bore down upon the pinnace.
At daybreak one May morning, a dhow was seen making for an opening known as Fungal Gap, and the dinghy, or small boat, with three men, was sent to hail her.
Both he and all under his command would have liked to be allowed to burn every dhow with a black man on board, but as such a proceeding would have been illegal, they were compelled to restrain their zeal.
Suddenly there came a squall and a downpour of rain, but the wind being right aft, the dhow flew on before it.
A bright look-out was kept, however, in the possibility of meeting a dhow creeping along-shore.
Gauntlet steamed on, leaving the dhow enveloped in flames.
The question, however, was how the dhow would treat them.
They hailed, on the chance of their having been thrown overboard when the dhow had got more ahead, but no reply came to their shouts.
After examining the rocks on either side, of the spot where the dhow went on shore, Higson returned to the ship; the boat was hoisted up, and a course steered for the dhow which had at first been captured.
Still the sail continued set, which was a suspicious circumstance, but the dhow was scarcely yet sufficiently to the northward to run in under the island.
All hopes of cutting her off were vain; the ship dashed on, head to wind, while the dhow bounded towards the rocky coast.
Against the wind, however, the dhow could do nothing, and was drifting away to the northward.
As the night advanced, the wind increased, and the dhow made rapid way through the water, steering after Adair's prize.
The dhowheeled over to the breeze, but still kept her large sail standing; there was no longer any doubt that the Arabs had resolved to beach her.
Had we allowed the dhow to pass, though those poor creatures might have been kept for ever as slaves, they might have retained their lives, it may be, and bettered their condition; but it was our duty to destroy the dhow at all events.
They were, however, suffering considerably from hunger and thirst, and at last Tim Nolan, touching his hat, offered to go off to the dhow and bring on shore something to eat.
When quite dry they are shipped by dhowto Aden; thence to China by steamship.
Fitting out from there he proceeded to the Arabian coast, and, at a point between Sheikh Sa'eed and Khor Omeira, the dhow ran short of water.
The effect of the showers of bullets was instantaneous; the captain of the largest dhow was killed at once, and, no one caring to take his place at the helm, she came to the wind and the crew lowered her sail.
Thirty riales you'll pay us, and a good supply of jowari grain must be landed for us from yonder dhow ere you ever set foot aboard her again.
When a dhow wishes to fit out the following is the procedure.
The dhow men unanimously agree that life is becoming decidedly dull.
That these people do have good taste, and some cultivation, is shown by their high appreciation of such articles, all of which came to our shores in the dhow holds.
Some time after his arrival at Djibouti the same Arab dhow put in there, and Adan, thinking Allah had delivered the murderers into his hands, went quickly to the French officer and laid a charge against them.
A policeman runs to tell me that a dhow has broken loose.
When the pearling ground is reached the dhow is anchored from time to time and the canoe lowered.
He had sailed his dhow from the French port down the British coast to Wakderia, beyond Berbera ing and fired off their rifles as a sign they were returning to the rescue.
It made the Dolphin quiver and tremble through every timber as she seemed literally to fly through the water, but it didn't make us approach the dhow any closer, although we held our own.
Hardly had the dhow got well off than the pinnace was lowered into the water alongside the steamer, her crew dropping in one by one, and I, of course, descending last.
If we didn't do something pretty soon Mr Arab dhow would be able to cry, `Walker!
Presently, the look-out forward said he thought he saw the white sail of a dhow close in to the island we were beating to windward of; and of course every one immediately must take it for granted that she's a contraband carrying slaves.
The first shot went wide of the mark, and so did the second; but the third carried away her main halliards apparently, for the big sail came down all at once by the run, making the dhow broach-to as it fell over the side to leeward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dhow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: galleon; junk; vessel; yacht
