Lexicographical Neighbors of Dahabiahs
Literary usage of Dahabiahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1857)
"I was 16 days in passing the steamer and dahabiahs (boats) over these cataracts,
during which time I kept 3500 men fully employed. ..."
2. The Nile Quest: A Record of the Exploration of the Nile and Its Basin by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"To stifle her mental anguish, she undertook a course of travel;l and after staying
for some time in the Levant and Egypt, ascended the Nile in dahabiahs to ..."
3. Village Life in Egypt: With Sketches of the Saïd by Bayle St. John (1853)
"Soon afterwards we had chosen a berth near half a dozen other European dahabiahs,
and considered ourselves settled for some time. The shore was covered with ..."
4. The Morning Land by Edward Dicey (1870)
"... covered over with a flotilla of " dahabiahs," as the Nile boats are called,
steam launches, ..."
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