bagala

Updated: May 28, 2025

Of course, we did come across some dhows, one in particular, a large `bagala, a craft with a high square stern, and a prow like a goose- neck; while her poop resembled that of a Chinese junk, being only a trifle clumsier if possible.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy

So we had to let him pass, the old rascal of a `reis' grinning over her stern at us as the bagala made off, running before the wind; the hook- nosed Arab looking as pleased as Punch, and yet having a sort of sly, malicious twinkle in his eye, like that `Old Nick' probably puts on `when he catches a churchwarden robbing a till, as Larrikins said.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy