prahu
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The prahu is Rajah Murad’s, and the crew his men.”
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
The doctor rose, and shading his eyes, gazed down the stream, but there was no prahu as yet in sight; and he then glanced to left and right for a hiding-place beneath the overhanging trees.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
While off the north-east coast of Palawan, our boats left to survey discovered an Illanoan prahu at anchor off one of the small islands that surround the coast.
From Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery by Frank Marryat
The prahu ordered to pilot us having come alongside, we hoisted her up abaft, and took the people on board, and then made sail for the hitherto unknown territory of Panti river.
From Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery by Frank Marryat
At last the sultan of Sooloo agreed to send a prahu with us to pilot us up the river, to the town where the crew of the Premier were in durance.
From Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery by Frank Marryat
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