Note 233 — ABU MOHAMMED HIGHT LAZYBONES.

Arab. “Kawárib” plur. of “Kárib” prop. a dinghy, a small boat belonging to a ship. Here it refers to the canoe (a Carib word) pop. “dug-out” and classically “monoxyle,” a boat made of a single tree-trunk hollowed by fire and trimmed with axe and adze. Some of these rude craft which, when manned, remind one of saturnine Caliph Omar’s “worms floating on a log of wood,” measure 60 feet long and more.