palhabote

Updated: May 3, 2025

Our canoe was literally "Laying her whole side on the sea, As a leaping fish does." Unwilling to risk swamping my instruments, I put into the northern bank, where our friend, the palhabote Esperance, passed under a tricolour, and manned only by Laptots.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

Our palhabote had brought up the chief Mashel's bier, and to-day we have the satisfaction of seeing it landed.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

The mangrove, which Tuckey's introduction prolongs to fifty miles from the mouth, now disappears; in fact, it does not extend much above Bullock Island, nineteen direct miles on the chart from Shark Point and, as usual, it enables us to measure the extreme limit where the salt-tide ascends. The palhabote went gallantly, "The water round her bows Dancing as round a drinking cup."

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2