Here is that blessed proa and junk, and a whole fleet of pirates after us!
The afternoon passed without any further appearance of the proa or junk, and then the evening came on, the wind veering round to our beam at sunset, making us brace up more sharply.
They round the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), cross the Indian Ocean, and get into the Malay seas, where they notice a proa following them.
These, on being scrutinised through the glass by the first mate, were declared to be the now familiar proa and her consort, a fact which I corroborated with my naked eye from the mizzen cross-trees whither I at once ascended.
However, on our getting abreast of Saddle Island, to the north-west of the Natuna group, behold the proa was joined by a companion, two of them now being in our wake when morning dawned and we were better able to see around us.
A few minutes later, as the sun was beginning to make its thunderclap tropic descent, the juragan, or captain of the proa issued a sharp order.
The latter was watching the proa with an anxious frown.
Under Lkath's trained hand the proa skipped through the intricate channel without scraping a rock and shot the length of the harbor.
A vociferous crowd of Dyaks hastened to the beach under the misapprehension that the proa was a trader.
Perceiving that the proa was armored against rifle-fire, Carver ordered all but six of his command to cease firing, the six making things sufficiently hot to keep the pirates from replying.
Muller winced and replied hastily: "I have been thinking, kapitein, that the proa crews have been doing too much killing lately.
But there were sharp eyes and ears on board the proa as well as on shore, and a cry of alarm was given from the deck.
Four hundred yards from shore a proa was being loaded from several large sampans.
He is aboard Ah Sing's proa, the proa we saw standing out to sea when we reached the beach.
Fully twenty Chinamen on the two sampans floating on the leeward side of the proa made the leap to her deck, and of these eleven fell back, so deadly was the fire.
Two days after Koyala had reported the murder of the Sadonger to Peter Gross a swift proa approached the harbor.
Hence a stranded proa excites much alarm amongst the coast population, and they immediately burn it, because demons fly from fire.
Hence the haste with which the branches are deposited in the proa and towed away to sea.
If the proa is stranded at any inhabited spot, the sickness will break out there.
In the island of Buru the proa which carries away the demons of disease is about twenty feet long, rigged out with sails, oars, anchor, and so on, and well stocked with provisions.
As we saw the cutter returning with the proa in tow, we instantly sent the pinnace to receive the proa and the prisoners, and to bring them on board, that the cutter might proceed on her errand.
However, we kept on our course, and about ten o'clock we perceived a proa under sail to the southward between Tinian and Aguigan.
The body of the proa (at least of that we took) is formed of two pieces joined endways and sewed together with bark, for there is no iron used in her construction.
The murderer's proa outsailing theirs, soon ran out of sight; yet after him they blindly steered by day and by night: steering by the blood- red star in Bootes.
After breakfast we landed, and were saluted by one gun from a proa hauled up on the beach.
As we saw the cutter returning back with the proa in tow, we immediately sent the pinnace to receive the proaand the prisoners, and to bring them on board that the cutter might proceed on her errand.
However, we kept on our course, and about ten in the morning we perceived a proa under sail to the southward, between Tinian and Aguigan.
It was twelve o'clock at night when Philip, who was in bed, was awakened by a shock; he thought it might be a proa running alongside, and he started from his bed and ran out.
If, around noon, a coconut proa landed, the boys made no effort to unload.
He gave an order, theproa was floated and the sail run up.
Without a word, without a sign, Enschede started toward the beach, where his proa waited.
One evening in September a proa rasped in upon the beach.
The proa bore away to the northwest out of which it had come.
My proa boys are ready; the wind is brisk; and in an hour we shall be beyond all pursuit.
But no one need fear a proa with a double outrigger, for she is not intended to lay alongside and board.
The value of a return cargo of a Bughis proa at Singapore is about 200 per cent on the outlay.
In the year 1839, moreover, a smallproa was driven off the coast of Timor Laut during the north-west monsoon.
In this state the ship passed ahead, all her canvas being full, leaving the proa motionless in her wake.
The effect on that proa was instantaneous; instead of keeping on after her consort, she wore short round on her heel, and stood away in our wake, on the other tack, apparently to get out of the range of our fire.
Part of our people mustered in the waist, where it was expected the proa would fall alongside, and part on the forecastle.
They parted with this added aid; afar, The Proa darted like a shooting star, And gained on the pursuers, who now steered Right on the rock which she and Torquil neared.
She saw the ship that had rescued, and the proa that had terrified her.
The ship had been becalmed the day before, and the Malay proa was in sight, evidently with evil intentions.
Soon he saw those on board the proa send down a boat and row quickly toward him.
When I left Puloroon, it was agreed that another proa was to be dispatched for Bantam in twenty days after our departure, lest we might have been pursued and taken by the Hollanders.
His knowledge and care, however, did not answer expectation, for he ran the proa on the rocky shoals near the island of Bottone, where she bilged and lost all the mace, the men getting ashore.
In this proa there were eight Englishmen and thirty Bandanese, under the charge of Walter Stacie, who had been mate under Mr Hinchley in the Defence.
The 6th we set sail for Bantam, and on the 7th, between Crackastaw and Becee, we met a proa with some of our people coming from Anniar.
At day-dawn the Malays were observed making a move, and as each proagot under sail, it steered towards us.
A small coasting proa was seen to the northward but soon afterwards lost sight of, steering towards Timor.
One of our visitors was very communicative, and by means of signs and a few words of the Malay language, which we understood, he explained that their Rajah's proa was armed with two small guns, and carried a compass.
His proa is the only vessel that is provided with a compass; it also has one or two swivels or small guns, and is perhaps armed with muskets.
On running alongside the proa, the letter was displayed, but they appeared frightened and unwilling to bring to, and repeatedly pointed towards the headmost proa in which their Rajah sailed.
Doddie took up her stand in the Madura proaas a saleswoman; and Van Oudijck, with Eldersma, Van Helderen and a couple of controllers from other districts, went round and treated the members of his council.
Proa after proa lay moored to the banks; the monotonous humming of Maduran seamen crept drearily across the water, from which rose a smell of fish.
This log, or outrigger, acts the same part in the proa that the second hull does in the catamaran, and practically gives the boat such a breadth of beam that it is impossible to capsize her.
The hull of the flying proa looks like half a sail-boat that has been split in two, and had one side rebuilt straight up and down.
The catamaran of New York Bay is merely a modified form of the famous flying proa of the South-sea Islanders, who build the fastest sailing craft in the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
