To the west is a shallow basin known as the Zambuk ridge which links the two main Basins.

Zambuk (Hosea's trusted salve), lime cream, and talcum powder were employed.

Shutnarels 250 Experienced mercenary Camel Mounted Infantry in 5 companies, equipped with Zambuk and sword.

Zam-Buk, or zambuk, was a skin-dressing sold in chemists and used by ambulance-men and first aiders at rugby league matches on injured players from the 1900s.

Thanks for your query it certainly sounds from your description that Zambuk may be responsible for this nasty allergic reaction on your lips but I am not quite sure whether they remain painful and inflamed.

At evening and mealtimes, Jonathan had to be forcibly removed from the back of the pony that Ralph had given him for his fifth birthday, and Cathy anointed the saddle sores on his buttocks with Zambuk.

His achievements as governor included construction of hospitals, including the Alkaleri General Hospital and Primary Health Centres at Dambam, Zambuk, Bambam and Burra, and the foundation for the Gombe Referral Hospital.

Many ships have been built in this city, like the sambuk and ghanjah.

Three days later, one sambuk grounded on a coral reef, then sank with no lost crew.

Some claim that the sambuk, a type of dhow, may be derived from the Portuguese caravel.

Usually a sambuk had one or two masts with lateen sails, but nowadays most are motorized.

Another chartered sambuk took the party to Al Wajh, arriving on 29 April.

Tintin, Haddock and Snowy leave for the Red Sea coast and board a sambuk for Mecca; they are attacked by fighter planes before Tintin shoots one down and rescues its mercenary Estonian pilot, Piotr Skut.

The sambuk was used along the coasts of the Persian Gulf, especially in Southern Arabia, like Saham and Sur in Oman, where it was formerly used in pearl fishing, as well as in the Yemeni coast of the Red Sea.

The pearling season known al-Ghaus al-Kabir ("The Big Dive") ran from May to September when a fleet of some 4,000 dhows ranging from the regular sambuk to the larger boum and baghlah would set out from the many ports of the Persian Gulf.

The cargo on the Trading Shu'ai, Boum and Sambuq is highly detailed, as are the wire fishtraps and fishing nets on the Fishing Shu'ai and Jelbut.

He wasn't that sort of a man and anyway our circumstances seemed oddly reversed - I was in command of a mine-laying exercise and he was bumming a ride in a sambuq down to Mukalla.

From the archetypal shu'ai dhow- workhorse of the inshore fishing and trading fleets - to the graceful boum dhow and the mighty sambuq, these dhows represent the essence of the world-renowned Arab maritime tradition.