Ombay

Indeed its position is just outside of the great volcanic belt, which extends from Flores through Ombay and Wetter to Banda.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Ombay Pass; after a period of magnificent sailorizing and superhuman effort he floated the ship and patched her so that she would stay afloat.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Nothing further of any importance occurred until, having worked our way slowly up past the west and north-west coast of Australia, we found ourselves to the northward of the Ombay Passage, the entrance of which -- or, rather, Savou Island, which may be said to lie in the fairway of the southern entrance -- I hit off to a hair, much to my own secret gratification and the admiration of the boatswain and carpenter.

Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship Harry Collingwood 1886

Ombay Passage into the Banda Sea, and thence, through the Boeroe Strait, into the Molucca or the Gillolo Passage, the successful negotiation of either of which would bring us to the spot where our search was to commence.

Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship Harry Collingwood 1886

Indeed its position is just outside of the great volcanic belt, which extends from Flores through Ombay and Wetter to Banda.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Duperrey next determined the position of the island of Vulcan; sighted the islands of Wetter, Baba, Dog, Cambing, and finally, entering the channel of Ombay, surveyed a large number of points in the chain of islands stretching from Pantee and Ombay in the direction of

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

No less than nineteen days were wasted in this trying situation; though certain of the officers took advantage of the delay to land on the nearest point of the island of Ombay, where the coast had a very inviting appearance.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

This excursion derived greater interest from the circumstance of the island of Ombay having been up to that time rarely visited by

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

At first the corvette sailed rapidly along the north coast of Timor, for the purpose of making a survey, but when she had reached the narrowest part of the Channel of Ombay, she encountered such violent currents that -- the winds being slight and contrary -- it was only with great difficulty she was able to regain the course which she had lost during the calm.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay?

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855