bosin

So my great-uncle, who were bosin, made an observation, and says he, 'There's just ten days' provision for seven men, and we're twenty days to looard of Silly Bes (Celebes), if we only row ten miles a day.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

[Greek: Os dhopot aptaenessi pherei bosin dortalichoisi

Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846