Walfish Bay

[ wawl-fish ]

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How to use Walfish Bay in a sentence

  • In the neighborhood of Walfish Bay man and beast live upon this gourd almost exclusively for three months in the year.

  • From Walfish Bay there are tracks which lead inland to a mission station in Damaraland.

  • It was some hundred miles to the north of Walfish Bay, the nearest point where Europeans were located.

    In the Wilds of Africa | W.H.G. Kingston
  • I clung on to it, and was picked up a day or two afterwards by a vessel which had to touch at Walfish Bay on her way to the Cape.

    In the Wilds of Africa | W.H.G. Kingston
  • On reaching Walfish Bay, we safely embarked the valuable produce we had collected.

    Adventures in Africa | W.H.G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for Walfish Bay

Walfish Bay

/ (ˈwɔːlfɪʃ) /


noun
  1. a variant spelling of Walvis Bay

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