It was rumored among our men that that Dutch patache had captured the champan that our men were sending to Manila--although such a rumor was untrue, for the said champan arrived safely at Manila.
They bought in place of that ship two others, in order to go to Manila; but as the season was advanced, and they could not get away so quickly, they despatched a champan with some eight Spanish sailors.
One man only was left in the champan which was burning; for he had been jammed among the beams.
Those [Dutch] ships also seized a large champan which had been left behind, and which carried a cargo of food and goods, belonging both to the king and to private persons.
They put the archbishop aboard a champan of a ship-captain called Marcos Cameros, who would not allow one single mouthful of food to be placed on board.
The archbishop divested himself of the stole and cope, whereupon the infantry took him outside the city, and embarked him in a champan which was prepared at a port called St. Dominic.
Our fathers of the Society of Jesus received them in Palapag, and cared for them for several days; after that they recovered, and immediately set out in a champan with a good supply of food.
The Lequians gave them some food, and immediately despatched the father and the Japanese, as they wished, in a funea, while the champan returned here.
The champanthat carried Father Marcelo Mastril did not go to China, but to the Lequios, which are subject to the king of Saxuma.
They attacked another champan on the sea beyond Mariveles, pillaged it, and sent it to the bottom.
Those aboard the champan assert that the king will be very glad of whatever ill-treatment Don Sebastian accords to the Macasars of Jolo, because they have taken arms against the vassals of his brother the king of Castilla.
There were two Spaniards in the champan who were wounded, but they killed the Morabite and wounded some of the others.
A champanarrived here on May 30, with fifty arrobas of nails which had been taken from the wreckage of the ship which, as I said, had run aground on the coast of Paracali.
For greater abundance, he added a champan with food and ammunition for the said fleet, and as an aid to the fort at Buayen.
The men of that champan also told him that the petty king of Great Sanguil talked with them, and said that he wished peace with the Spaniards, and would pay tribute to his Majesty.
The alcalde-mayor returned in his champan to Vigán, and fathers Fray Juan de Isla and Fray Luis de la Fuente marched with the Spanish army, which on its way reached the village of Santa Cruz.
He himself embarked in a champan with the father visitor Fray Juan de Isla and father Fray Luís de la Fuente, the bishop promising to follow them.
A royal champan was sailing not very far from that place, in which were the captain and alcalde-mayor of Caraga and his wife, and three Recollect fathers.
A dead man to him is like a champan damaged beyond repair--something to be carried away by the all-devouring river.
We all embarked, and went to a district belonging to the fathers, to deck the champan over.
The auditor also took the precaution not to let any champan or ship leave the bay, in order not to give the corsair an opportunity to learn what was going on.
Another large gang of sailors were afterward discovered, who had a champan in the river of Cañas [104] in order to flee.
The island of Hermosa Last year a champan left there for Manila with seventeen Spaniards aboard.
The latter encountered a large champan at Playa Honda, and tried to reconnoiter it, believing that it was the one in which the men had fled.
The above was learned from a champan which came after the ships of the relief expedition.
The end was most lofty, the means which he chose very fitting--as were the three religious, who were the most suitable in the province; and the champan was staunch.
The champantossed fearfully, so that it was regarded as a good plan to cut down the mast.
But that expedition could not have been for the best, for the Lord proceeded to defeat it, by allowing their champan to be wrecked.
But, after sighting the land of Panay, so furious a storm struck them that they were unable to contend with it, as the champan lacked strength in the rudder.
For three days they were the sport of wind and weather, awaiting what the Lord would do with them, until on Saturday afternoon the same champan entered the port of an islet two leguas from Burías.
It was a miraculous thing, for when they were rowing the champan and that but slowly, they were not able to know the route, and hit upon it without any guidance, for already they had left it.
At length, they boarded the tender of the champan and rowed ashore.
In their journeyings they reached the shipyard, where a vessel was being built; for it was necessary to get a champan there to go to Panay, and they found one.
Thence he crossed to Manila, after having bargained with a champan of Baco to go for father Fray Francisco Bonifacio.
They repaired the champan with that mast, made a half-way rudder and a jury-mast, and set sail on the sea for Panay, from which they were not very far.
This acted] through the agency of Captain Francisco Ponce, a veteran soldier, who killed the captain and another of the pirates; and also of a sudden wind, which gave wings to the champan for placing itself in safety.
He deemed best not to answer it, for while he was thinking how he would dismiss the messenger, he was advised that a champanhad just anchored in the port, in which were two religious.
The quiet of Bolinao lasts only so long as the above-mentioned champan remains there.
He led them to the convent, arranging also that two Spaniards and six Tagálog Indians who could be withdrawn from the champanwithout their loss being felt therein, should accompany them with firearms.
No sooner did the restlessness and excited condition of the Indians force him to take prudent precautions, than he caused ten soldiers to disembark from a champan which was on its way to Cagayàn.
All were terrified and within a few hours they dragged out the two culprits by the neck--one from the champan on which he had embarked; the other from a hut in which he had hidden himself.
The multitude of bancas hurried to a champan which was about to depart, which lay outside the bar with only two soldiers to guard it; and the Sangleys going aboard it hoisted sail.
There was one champan which took aboard 1,300 of them; they were so crowded together that they could hardly sit down; but in this the captain had no small profit, for they exacted from each one ten pesos as passage-money.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "champan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
