At South Bay we came upon a grassy clearing larger than usual, near a bright stream; its pottery and charred wood showed the site of the Spanish barracoon destroyed by the British in 1840.
At all events we had certainly lost our way, and had not the slightest idea on what side of us lay the river, or the barque, or the barracoon of King Dingo Bingo.
At all other times of the year the factory would be deserted, its huts uninhabited by man, and its barracoon empty.
My dear," her mother said with a smile, "it is not altogether discreet for a young lady to talk in that way.
Well, if I am to call you Myra, you must call me Nat.
As I told you the other day, your arm will be some two inches shorter than it was.
I thought I could not have been so blind as to pass the entrance without seeing it," one of the sailors who had been on watch aloft said, in a tone of satisfaction.
I have no doubt that he was lying, but there was no way of proving it.
Both boats sank immediately, those of the crews who were uninjured swimming to the brigantine.
That is quite possible," the captain said, "and yet it may be there.
Having nothing to do, Nat went into thebarracoon and the other houses in which the slaves were placed.
There is a barracoon on the shore and some storehouses.
In the first place there must be a barrack run up for the men on shore between the barracoon and the storehouses.
Until now the slavers had been ignorant that a party of foes had landed, and the fact that a barracoon full of slaves, and the storehouses, were already threatened, caused something like consternation among them.
Severe fighting was now going on opposite the schooner, where the landing-party were evidently attacking the barracoon and storehouses.
These five storehouses and thebarracoon will hold them all pretty comfortably.
As was too likely the pirates had set fire to the barracoon on purpose to delay the English; this plan succeeded perfectly.
In the centre stood a largebarracoon full of slaves.
This barracoon was a shed built of heavy piles driven down into the earth, lashed together with bamboos, and thatched with palm-leaves.
It is the prize barracoon of that connexion, and its habitues fondly cherish the conviction that it is a second Milan.
On my return on shore, I looked into the barracoon hired by Captain Trunnion, in which I saw from forty to fifty slaves assembled, and even more heavily ironed and secured than they had been before.
When I looked in, the barracoon contained only about twenty slaves.
Half a dozen armed men, two being mulattoes, the others blacks, were guarding the barracoon and watching the slaves, so that any attempt to free themselves from their irons was impossible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barracoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
