Guardafui
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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She was coming home from East Indian ports, wasn't she, and got on fire somewhere off Cape Guardafui?
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Wood, Stanley L.
No one who lives within thirty miles of the sea nearly all the way south from Cape Guardafui to Zululand can hope to escape it.
From Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
Italian Somaliland, east of the British sphere to Cape Guardafui, is left to look after itself, except for the occasional visit of an Italian man-of-war; but south of that great headland there are Italian settlements.
From Pan-Islam by Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman)
The currents are here so violent that they carried us against our will to Cape Guardafui, where we sent our boats ashore for fresh water, which we began to be in great want of.
From A Voyage to Abyssinia by Johnson, Samuel
It also mentions a hare-like animal, now male then female, and the Somal behind Cape Guardafui tell the same tale of their Cynhyænas.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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