Towards night the master offered him a knife, which he scornfully refused, and immediately went ashore in an Almadia.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII."
Robert Kerr
I had noticed that whenever a particularly difficult bit of navigation had to be done on our boat, red velvet slippers were always worn, as for instance, when running through the heavy weather we had met south of the Bay, on going in at Puerto de la Luz, and on rounding the Almadia reefs, and on entering Freetown harbour in fog.
"West African studies"
Mary Henrietta Kingsley