After passing the bight of Negombo, we soon enter the harbor of Colombo, and as we do so, an English mail steam packet is passed whose decks are crowded with coolies bound for Tuticorin, a port two hundred miles away, across the Gulf of Manaar.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
But in the end they did come there with the Road; and they were very Hardy; and they did fight with the Monsters and slay many; and they built them many Cities, through great years in the Mighty Valley, and did make the Road from City unto City along that Great Valley, even unto the bight of the Valley.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
But the Great House was not Proper; and that Man did take all the Peoples to Wander; and they came to the bight; and there was built at last that Great and Mighty Pyramid.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson