cahida

Updated: May 5, 2025

After our black coffee and liqueur, we sat out on the broad cahida, or covered veranda running around three sides of the house, and watched the rockets from the shore and ship replying to each other in the clear, starlit night, while a theatrical-looking moon came up slowly out of the bay, leaving a trail of red light on the rippling water.

Florence Kimball Russel - A Woman's Journey through the Philippines: On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route

At the second explosion, Vicente, who lay snoring by the helm, awoke and told me it was a "terra cahida"; but I could scarcely believe him. The day dawned after the uproar had lasted about an hour, and we then saw the work of destruction going forward on the other side of the river, about three miles off.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons