Beyond lie the rapids of the "Bad Waters," and then the Ysipuri Rapids, where there was a large rubber barraca in charge of an English superintendent.
However, while we were at the barraca he escaped, leg shackles and all, and was not heard of until, some months later, he turned up below at our camp and we became good friends.
It was here at this chief barraca of his company that there might be trouble--we had been warned that if we attempted to round this bend in any unapproved, uncensored callapos we would be fired on.
The barraca lay just around the bend where the river broke in some small rapids and then saved itself in miles of smoothly coiling eddies for the grand smother of the Ratama.
The night's camp was at Ysipuri, a rubber barraca that was complaining bitterly at the time that it was overstocked with marmalade and snakes.
One, however, that I saw in the rubber barraca of Caimalebra, living with a Bolivian refugee murderer, was an absolute beauty by any standards of comparison.
There was feasting and drinking and noise; from the barraca across the river came a delegation to lend a joyous hand.
That night a friend came to our party with the information that this man had shipped in to his barraca recently some dozen Winchesters and considerable ammunition and that he was arranging to ship more.
The chief in this barraca was a white man; he had a well kept place with its out-buildings and little Indian quarters laid out with some system.
Farther down the river is the barraca of the patrón, a large clearing in the forest back from the bank of the river.
It seemed as if it was useless to wait for the river and essential that we should get to the big barraca of Ysipuri where there were ample supplies for our party.
In the jungles across the river from Mapiri was another rubber barraca in which a Bolivian owner held court.
During the four weeks of delay in Mapiri we had seen much of a neighboring rubber baron, old man Violand, whose barraca was a half day's ride over the steep trails.
The chief agent in the barraca consulted with the Lecco crews who had brought him in.
There was a small barraca nearly half-full of water in the bow of the boat.
Then he arose and picked up the empty barraca and led the way up to the house.
She instantly arose and went forward to the barraca in the bows, presently coming back with a brimming cup of water.
Beside a barracaof fresh water, they brought down and stowed away in the boat a ham, a flitch of bacon, a bag and a half of biscuit, and a lemon net full of yams.
For Barraca held the sea, and the wealthy and enterprising south was strongly opposed to war, while Dom Corria trusted to the mountains and drew his partisans from the less energetic north.
He would not lead it, of course, but in Dom Miguel Barraca he found an eager substitute.
Full twenty of the assailants fell, Dom Miguel de Barraca among them.
In a word, De Sylva commanded public sympathy but small resources; Barracawas unpopular but controlled the navy and part of the army.
To restore the balance, Dom Corria took the field in person, and Dom Miguel Barraca hastened from Rio de Janeiro to witness the crushing of his arch-enemy.
On the declivity of Barraca Head sloping seaward are visible three marks in the form of crosses, which, according to tradition, were made in the sand by the pious monks of former centuries.
It was the hour when the Barraca is thronged, and Evadne had gone with a purpose, expecting to find him there.
Colonel Colquhoun had lunched at mess that day, and Evadne did not see him until quite late, when she met him on the Barraca with the Guthrie Brimstons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barraca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
