The attack came on suddenly and we were afraid to run the risk of taking him back to Athens in the felucca.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
I walked down to the quay with him and saw him rowed off to the felucca.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
We stood for the port, from which a felucca brought me a letter from the captain of the Formidable, which had been anchored in the Road of Cadiz, stating that in the morning he had engaged two ships of the line and a frigate, and that one of the ships of the line had been completely dismasted, and had been towed away by a frigate.
"Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I"
Sir John Ross