For along that bank the dhows were moored and they were numerous; the river traffic, such as there was of it, had its harbour there, and the wide foreshore made a convenient market-place.
The dhows came no nearer, neither did they go much further away.
A lot of dhows were showing here and there amongst the reefs, obviously watching them, and Tazzuchi was beginning to get nervous.
So soon as darkness fell, the dhows closed in again and recommenced their sniping.
And out beyond, in and among the reefs, and along the distant shore, which swung and shimmered in the heat haze, hungry dhows prowled like carrion birds temporarily driven away from a prey.
Dhows at present come in with ease by the easterly wind which blows in the evening, and leave next morning, the land wind taking them out.
Many of the dhows leave for Madagascar, and thence come back to complete their cargoes.
Mokalaosé thinks that the Arabs are afraid that I may take their dhows from them and go up to the north.
News come that the twodhows have come over to Loséwa (Loséfa).
Far down on the right bank of the Zambesi lies the dust of her whose death changed all my future prospects; and now, instead of a check being given to the slave-trade by lawful commerce on the Lake, slave-dhows prosper!
At last the wind filled our sails, and the dhows began to separate.
Dhows were frequently seen and chased, but those which were overhauled proved to be legal traders.
That thousands of slaves were being embarked and carried northward there could be no doubt, but how to catch the dhows with slaves on board was the question.
They would all, however, afford sufficient shelter to the boats, and conceal them till they could pounce out and capture any dhows passing near.
The ship then sailed on a cruise to the northward, the commander promising to return in the course of a fortnight to replenish their provisions, and take charge of any dhows which might have been captured.
There was a high cliff on the right hand, sheltering a deep bay in which threedhows rode at anchor.
She was already almost hull down, and the catastrophe could not have been discovered from her deck, while the eyes of the look-outs aloft were probably fixed on the dhows still trying to escape.
Several dhows were seen, but being to leeward, effected their escape.
A bright look-out was kept aloft, from the first break of day until darkness covered the face of the deep, for any dhows sailing northward, but day after day passed by and none were seen.
Her remarks had greater influence on Charley than even the miserable state of the slaves on board the dhows had produced.
On a signal being made the dhows stood in towards the inner part of the bay, where a small creek formed a harbour of sufficient size to contain them, so that they were able to moor close to the shore.
Ned was not disappointed; the "Ione" was soon again at sea, and had reached the latitude beyond which his commander had authority to capture all dhows with slaves on board.
On board two of the captured dhows not more than three bags of grain were found to feed between eighty and a hundred people.
Now, from what I know of the habits of slave-traders on this coast, the dhows will not begin to take in their cargoes for another month, because of the monsoon.
The day the dhows came in I escaped by swimming; and all the others who remained alive were taken off in ships to Zanzibar.
They won't cage the birds for another three or four days; the dhows are not ready, and there is talk of an English cruiser--may she sink to hell!
It was to have been the night before the dhows sail, but now the Devil says it shall be to-morrow night.
Here he collects the slaves, and here the traders come twice a year with their dhowsto carry them to market.
We must clear out of this place at once, or we shall have the escaped slavers and the crews of the dhows down upon us.
Whilst England has been doing all she can to put slavery down, it is complained that much is carried on under cover of the French flag, obtained by Arab dhows under false pretexts from the French Consul resident in Zanzibar.
It is built on a tongue of land, which affords shelter for Arab dhows during the north-east monsoon.
They convey the slaves in dhows from the mainland to Madagascar, Arabia, or southern Persia, and to the Island of Pemba, which lies north of Zanzibar, and only fifteen miles from the mainland.
The "Aphrodite" had arrived in the very nick of time, for the sudden change from intense darkness to daybreak revealed the fact that three suspicious-looking Arab dhows were making ready to pounce down upon the unarmed boats.
It's a curious fact, but our cruisers systematically search every little harbour on the Arabian coast and find nothing beyond a few dhows owned by Arab traders whose papers are quite in order.
This officer had greatly distinguished himself by the energy and success with which he had carried on operations against the slaving dhows during the term of his command on the Zanzibar coast.
On his way he examined any dhows he met which he suspected to contain slaves.
With measured creak of curving spars dhows gently to the jeweled stars Rock out a lullaby.
His work took him along the edge of the Red Sea, where men on swift camels come to smuggle hashish, and sometimes guns, from dhows that put in to any convenient beach.
Getting fat; slaving-dhows coming and slaving-dhows going away; bad smells; and kindly looks from English folks to each other.
THE DHOWS South of Guardafui with a dark tide flowing We hailed two ships with tattered canvas bent to the monsoon, Hung betwixt the outer sea and pale surf showing Where dead cities of Libya lay bleaching in the moon.
While this was going on in the vessel commanded by Moosa, the other two dhows under Yoosoof and a man named Suliman had been lost sight of.
The Arabs seized their opportunity, and a stream of dhows and larger vessels swept out from the various creeks and ports all along the East African coast, filled to overflowing with slaves.
For instance, there is something almost amusing in the fact that dhows were sailing every day for Lamoo with hundreds of slaves, although that small town was known to be very much overstocked at the time.
In a few minutes they reached the harbour, and, while making inquiries as to the starting of trading dhows for the south, they succeeded in calming their feelings down to something like their ordinary condition.
The dhows which were thus chased or captured were all regular and undisguised slavers.
When caught, the dhows were invariably destroyed and the slaves set free--that is to say, carried to those ports where they might be set free with safety.
The morrow came, and three dhows left the harbour of Kilwa, hoisted their lateen sails, and steered northwards.
Already the dhows were hoisting their sails, and one of the cables of the ship suddenly disappeared in the water, while a number of men sprang upon the ratlines.
Captain Thompson, seeing that the guns of the ship were silent, and that all resistance had ceased, now ordered the sailors to turn their guns on the dhows and sink as many as possible.
Dhows do fly before the wind, and, water-logged though this vessel was, her speed was marvellous.
Arab dhows who fire on our British cruisers are treated as pirates, and, when taken red-handed, have a short shrift and a long drop.
It was in pursuit of one of the dhows manned by such gentleman Arabs that the Bunting had been all the previous afternoon.
These dhows were and are still manned and officered by Arabs--gentlemen Arabs they term themselves.
They were almost as large as the dhows in which the cattle had been brought down, but drew very much less water.
A great many of these Indian dhows can run away from a square-rigged ship, in light weather.
He used to lie on his sickbed, gazing across the thatched roofs of Berbera to the Arab dhows riding at their anchors in the sea.
He used to lie on his sick bed-gazing across the thatched roofs of Berbera to the Arab dhows riding at their anchors in the sea.
Next morning the ship anchored a mile or so from a mangrove swamp, and the business of disembarkation began again, this time into the ship’s boats and some sailing dhows that had met the Barjordan at this spot.
Innumerable dhows and row-boats swarmed down, filled with eager salesmen of curios and ostrich plumes.
The slanting masts and yards of the dhows silhouette against a sky of the deepest translucent green; and the heroic statue of De Lesseps, standing for ever at the Gateway he opened, points always to the mysterious East.
She was nowhere to be seen, though he caught sight of several dhows running to the northward.
The midshipmen's chief hope now was that the ship would quickly come back and catch the three dhows before they again stood out to sea.
I have received notice that a piratical band of Arabs, who have long had possession of a strong fort up the river Angoxa, have a number of barracoons full of slaves and several dhows lying under the protection of their guns.
Several dhows had been chased and boarded, but the evidence for their condemnation had been insufficient, and with much reluctance Jack had to let them go.
The last of the three dhows had now stranded, and the cries and shrieks which arose showed that the Arabs were throwing the unfortunate blacks into the water, and compelling them to make their way on shore.
They were for the present, indeed, more interested with the dhows taken by the lieutenant and the other boat.
So occupied had he been that not till the dhows appeared did he think of sending the carpenter's mate and two men to repair the boat.
In the harbor lay three or four Arab dhows and a neat little steamer, which the captain said belonged to the governor, and was used for transporting troops or despatches.
No doubt those innocent looking dhows had been filled with armed Arabs, waiting for the signal, and now every escape was cut off.
She passed up the Dardanelles (being missed "overhead" by a torpedo fired from Kelid Bahr) on the 30th June, and on 2nd July sank a steamer and two dhows in Rodosto Bay.
The Marmora submarines hardly deign to mention such small fry as dhows and other sailing ships, but the list runs to a great length when put together.
Arab dhows bring them across the Persian Gulf and adjacent waters, and caravans of camels convey them to their destination through the mountain passes of Baluchistan.
As the shamel was still blowing hard from the north-west I anchored to the east'ard of the point, close to some rocks, and among a number of dhows sheltering there.
We hove up our rusty cable and slipped out through the cluster of dhows anchored near us.
Indeed, the only exciting incident was the sudden bursting of a strong "shamel", which scattered the dhows and compelled me to raise steam and take shelter from it round the other side of the peninsula.
We have to get up steam and start hunting dhows as soon as ever we can," I burst out enthusiastically, telling him what were my orders.
He opened fire with our four-inch guns, keeping it up from four o'clock that afternoon till six, and setting a good many of the dhows on fire.
Several times dhows glided by noiselessly and mysteriously, with a phosphorescent glow along their water-lines, and each time one passed I felt as excited as a child.
These were the very fellows we had been hunting for, bringing their rifles from Jeb to hide them in the village at our feet, until dhows could be sent to take them away.
The whole bay was a mass of smoke from the dhows we had set on fire with our shells.
A nice little haul that was, and the word was passed along to 'sound' the bottoms of all the dhows we overhauled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dhows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
