Guardafui
Americannoun
noun
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A`jan Coast, a district on the E. coast of Africa, from Cape Guardafui to the mouth of the Juba, under the protectorate of Germany.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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 Samuel Johnson
In the first place, Berberah is the true key of the Red Sea, the centre of East African traffic, and the only safe place for shipping upon the western Erythroean shore, from Suez to Guardafui.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Departing from Cananor, Suarez arrived off Melinda on the 1st of February; where, without landing himself, he sent Antonio de Saldanna to bring away the rich prizes he had formerly made at Cape Guardafui.
We ran to Cape Guardafui in a gale, a sticky hot gale which made life unendurable.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
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