Guillermo and I, with several Scouts, got into two bancas and worked our way up the Cagayan River through a series of rapids to Pinippigan, where we spent the night.
We crossed the river in long bancas (dugout canoes) and swam our horses behind us, at times fending off rather large crocodiles.
Native bancas glided silently about, and a straw-sailed boat drifted idly round the point, where the picturesque gray walls of the oldest Spanish fort in the Philippines stood guard.
He came from the Pintados in a stout caracoa, manned by some good arquebusiers, while others manned some bancas that sailed in the shelter of the caracoa.
They quite commonly pull from their bancas the natives who go in those boats, and cause many injuries among the horned cattle and the horses of the stock-farms, when they go to drink.
There were on the water the same familiarbancas and fish corrals, and on land the rice fields and cocoanut groves.
Still afar, they could see these were the same rough bancas such as they had seen after the battle--bancas in one of which they two had escaped up-river!
At Santa Ana they found their bancas waiting for them, and embarked.
The bancas are dug-out canoes, each paddled by a single oarsman.
Dim mountainous shapes would rise out of the sea and loom vaguely in the starlit distance, the curving beaches at their bases outlined by the torches in the bancas till they looked like boulevards with their lines of flickering lamps.
The poles and paddles used to propel the bancas had also been ornamented.
The bancas were now putting off slowly from the shore.
The bancas were turned toward the other fish rack, and it was necessary for Andeng to get the water boiling again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bancas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
