It is also deeper, so that fragatas can enter over its bar at full tide, for it has about one and one-half brazas of depth.
The first year the Chinaman pays this sum, and the following years gives for every hundred brazas of land fifteen or twenty pesos rent, which is a like number of fanegas of rice.
But they were likewise unable to anchor there, for, on casting their anchor, they found more than fifteen brazas of water.
On the 13th the vessel moved to another anchorage with nine brazas of water at pistol shot of the land.
North-northeast of said bay there is a mouth about two miles wide, where there are four small white rocks, the two north ones with the two south ones[70] form a channel of nine brazas depth.
He summoned all his Bisayan and Moro allies in order to build a fort, which he has built up the river, from palm-trees four brazas high.
The bar is covered with three to four brazas of water, or four at full tide.
Almost one braza was cut off near the bow, on account of its unsatisfactory shape; and more than two brazas will be added to the original length.
The sheathing and planking hewn from the above-named trees for the sheathing of the ships is one palmo thick and three or four wide, and the shortest is twelve brazas long.
This was so carelessly executed that, upon throwing the anchor, they could not find bottom, whereupon they grounded the galleon in four brazas of water.
They then resolved to cast anchor, hoping in this way to gain some safety for the vessel, and thus they remained during an entire night in twenty-six brazas of water, exposed to great danger, and in fear of being lost.
It chooses desert islands and those full of sand, where it first makes a hole one or one and one-half brazas deep; and after having laid its eggs, it covers them over with sand.
I have killed one of that species which was two and one-half brazas long.
It is forty brazas long by fifteen wide, and five high.
They also pay lampotes, a kind of white cotton fabric, four brazas long and one vara wide, at four reals.
Afterward the king sent us six brazas of red cloth, so that we might give it to the governor.
This wall is about one thousand brazas long and has a foundation below ground of about one and one-half estados.
That consists of one manta two brazas long and one wide, and two fanegas of rice, and if they do not possess that, three maes of gold.
As we had no more cloth, the king sent to have three brazas of his brought and gave it to us,510 and we gave it with other things to the governor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brazas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
