Note 33 — THE MAN OF UPPER EGYPT AND HIS FRANKISH WIFE.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Al-Sáhil” i.e. the seaboard of Syria; properly Phœnicia or the coast-lands of Southern Palestine. So the maritime lowlands of continental Zanzibar are called in the plur. Sawáhil = “the shores” and the people Sawáhílí = Shore-men.