proas

The oil men, their throats parched, exhausted to the bone, climbed into native boats called proas.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

The oil men, their throats parched, exhausted to the bone, climbed into native boats called proas.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

On the 28th a fleet of more than an hundred sail of the small country vessels, called proas, anchored here; their burden is from twelve to eighteen and twenty tons, and they carry from sixteen to twenty men.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

They made their way by foot or in proas, beset by hunger, exhaustion, malaria, dysentery, and fear, their parties growing smaller and smaller as the ill and dead dropped away.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

They made their way by foot or in proas, beset by hunger, exhaustion, malaria, dysentery, and fear, their parties growing smaller and smaller as the ill and dead dropped away.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

But fifty miles could be easily crossed, either by Malay proas or by the large Polynesian canoes.

The Mysterious Island 2005

But fifty miles could be easily crossed, either by Malay proas or by the large Polynesian canoes.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, have sallied out upon the vessels sailing through the straits, fiercely demanding tribute at the point of their spears.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Here are models of the junks, proas and fishing-craft, each structure pegged together and destitute of nails.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

Sunda, Banca, Rhio, Dryan, Malacca, and Singapore, since 1823, and have known some few European vessels and many native proas taken; but, in all my voyages up and down, I never saw a boat or proa that I felt certain was a pirate.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson