nakhuda

Updated: May 28, 2025

The seats of these canoes are bars of wood tied transversely to the length. The party is composed of Bombay, my interpreter; Gaetano, the Goanese cook-boy; two Beluch soldiers; one Nakhuda or sea-captain, who sometimes wore a goat-skin; and twenty stark-naked savage sailors: twenty-six in all.

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