bouting

Updated: June 4, 2025

Starting the following morning, we put to sea again, and in three days sailing against a strong southerly current, aggravated by a stiff north-easterly breeze, almost too much for our cranky little vessel, and which frightened the crew and our little timid Sheikh so much that they all lost presence of mind, and with the greatest difficulty were repressed from "'bouting ship," and wrecking themselves, together with us, on the shores of the coast we harboured in the Mombas creek.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile