On turning a point the prahu kept before the wind, and walked away from us so fast that we gave up the chase.
I afterwards learned that they were of the Sagai race—a tribe of the Dyaks—some of whom manned the prahu on which I was.
We had rather a long and tiresome voyage, for the prahu, though light and large, did not prove a very good sea-boat.
The primitive vessel is a prahu; a long canoe, rowed sometimes by fifty rowers.
It was the slight rocking of the prahu that caused Barunda to look suddenly about to discover the reason for the disturbance.
