We ordered the Indians to remain with the caracoaamong those creeks, of which there are many.
We stored aboard a caracoa the most valuable things of the convent, and buried the rest.
They did it with great resolution, so that the pirate, imagining that they were a caracoa belonging to a fleet, began to flee.
Our caracoa went to pieces and all its cargo was lost, except what was later cast ashore.
They did so, and hence all the things aboard the caracoa and those buried were found afterward.
They carried their insolence so far that two small vessels with but small crews, dashed into the bay of Manila one of the above years, and almost in sight of that capital, seized a caracoa from Iloilo with the rich cargo aboard it.
Those who would do so embarked with the king and some of his wives and the Dutch in one caracoa and four juangas [199] which they had armed near the king's fort.
The auditor took the wounded and the men who had escaped from the islet of Fortun, at nightfall, in his ship's boat which he found at that port, as well as the corsair's boat and a caracoa which arrived there.
In order to remedy the damages that might ensue from not inflicting punishment, it was necessary to equip a caracoa with Pampangos and servants of the Spaniards.
This troop fought a battle with a caracoa full of soldiers from the city of Zebu, who inflicted some injury upon the Moros, killing and capturing some.
A large hostile caracoa was discovered on the coast of the city of Cebu.
A great tempest had detained them after they passed La Silanga, in which one caracoa was lost, under Captain Sisneros, but only a boy was killed.
But they did not pursue him, as they thought that it was an armed war caracoa of the Spaniards.
On this Sunday morning, his Lordship sent also to Samboanga a Moro caracoa full of our Christian prisoners and Sangleys, who had been coming in great numbers to the camp since the first day, especially on Saturday morning.
A caracoaof soldiers from Zibu fought with this division, and some damage was inflicted on them; and some of the Camucones were killed, and some captured.
The galleys having been stationed at the mouth of the river, it was impossible for even a singlecaracoa to escape.
By a caracoa which I sent to Ambueno, to get word of what was doing there, I learned that the Dutch have seven ships in that island, and that they sent one ship laden with cloves to Holland.
The rest which are going from Mindanao consisted of forty large caracoas and twenty carangailes and bireyes, with one caracoa and two bireyes from Sanbuangan and Tagima.
It has happened that a sea-going caracoa has kept continually above water during a hurricane, until driven by the waves upon some island; and, as there are so many islands, they cannot fail to strike one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caracoa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
