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prau

n. (alternative form of proa English)

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He owned a Malay prau and called himself The Nakhoda, as one would say: The Captain.

While Alex took her daughter below to prepare, Gavin arranged for food and hired a prau from the island head man.

The prau was small enough that Gavin could easily handle the sails by himself, and he enjoyed its swallow-like maneuverability as they rounded one of the horns of the harbor to reach the cove.

They ambled back to the prau, Katie collecting still more shells, while he reminded himself that Alex had not yet recovered from her months of captivity.

A Jawa fisherman would skim about on even a turbulent sea in a craft called a prau, so small and flimsy that it would have been careened by the waves except that it was balanced by a log carried at some distance alongside on long cane spars.

A jeer went up from the packed men on the prau, and it veered in closer.

But there was about their savagery a curious touch of civilization, for Malays from Macassar and from Java had for centuries come here in their praus in search of sandalwood and cedar and cypress and trepang and pearl-shell, coming at the end of one trade-wind season and returning with the beginning of the next, thereby having a favouring wind each way--a matter of great importance to a craft so ill suited to headwinds as a prau.

Several times praus had been paddled out to the Amstel when the ship sailed near an island, eager to offer fruit and fish and poultry to crew and passengers.

Abandoning secrecy, the praus leaped forward under maximum rowing power, accompanied by the deep, terrifying boom of war gongs.

Indian C9 Ocean, Gavin saw Alex and Katie hanging on the railing, watching raptly as praus skimmed around the Helena with islanders offering food and other wares.

The ships tied up or coming and going were, of course, mostly Arab qurqurs and falukahs and dhaos, the biggest of them looking like dinghis and praus alongside our massive vessels.

The black praus withdrew and were soon hull down on the horizon away in the south.

When they anchored in the harbor of a small island to provision before crossing the wide expanse of the Indian Ocean, Gavin saw Alex and Katie hanging on the railing, watching raptly as praus skimmed around the Helena with islanders offering food and other wares.

But no one knew then that he had foregathered with Niclaus and lived in his prau.

The only part I took in the fight, though, was when a prau broke free from the pirate anchorage and made off upriver, sweeps going like blazes and war-gong thundering.