Chapter DHOOLY to DHOW of D by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

BATCUL), a seaport belonging to the Sircar.…”—Tippoo’s Letters, 181.

1786.—“We want 10 shipwrights acquainted with the construction of Dows. Get them together and despatch them hither.”—Tippoo to his Agent at Muskat, ibid. 234.

1810.—“Close to Calcutta, it is the busiest scene we can imagine; crowded with ships and boats of every form,—here a fine English East Indiaman, there a grab or a dow from Arabia.”—Maria Graham, 142.

1814.—“The different names given to these ships (at Jedda), as Say, Seume, Merkeb, Sambouk [see SAMBOOK], Dow, denote their size; the latter only, being the largest, perform the voyage to India.”—Burckhardt, Tr. in Arabia, 1829 4to, p. 22.

1837.—“Two young princes…nephews of the King of Hinzuan or Joanna…came in their own dhow on a visit to the Government.”—Smith, Life of Dr. J. Wilson, 253.

1844.—“I left the hospitable village of Takaungu in a small boat, called a ‘Daw’ by the Suahilis…the smallest sea-going vessel.”—Krapf, p. 117.

1865.—“The goods from Zanzibar (to the Seychelles) were shipped in a dhow, which ran across in the month of May; and this was, I believe, the first native craft that had ever made the passage.”—Pelly, in J.R.G.S. xxxv. 234.

1873.—“If a pear be sharpened at the thin end, and then cut in half longitudinally, two models will have been made, resembling in all essential respects the ordinary slave dhow.”—Colomb, 35.

“Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa…by Capt. G. L. Sulivan, R.N.,” 1873.

1880.—“The third division are the Mozambiques or African slaves, who have been brought into the country from time immemorial by the Arab slave-trading dhows.”—Sibree’s Great African Island, 182.

1883.—“Dhau is a large vessel which is falling into disuse…. Their origin is in the Red Sea. The word is used vaguely, and is applied to baghlas (see BUGGALOW).” Bombay Gazetteer, xiii. 717 seq.