var. SAMBOOK.
1582. N. Lichefield, trans. Castanheda’s Conq. E. Ind., I. lxiii. 129 b. Hee went to Mousanbique in a Zanbuco.
1866. Henry E. J. Stanley, trans. E. Africa and Malabar (Hakl. Soc., No. 35), 5. The mode of their trade is that they come by sea in small barks which they call zanbucs (sambuk), from the kingdoms of Quiloa, and Mombaza, and Melindi.
1891. Nat. Rev., Feb., 729. Small barques, which they called zanbucs.
