Cot-sen sent most of their champans to the bottom, and captured many; few escaped, and those were damaged.
When the champans were ready to weigh anchor, his Lordship was informed that the two chief leaders of the people who had fled to the mountains had come down in the last bands.
On the way he encountered some companies of seamen from the champans and other riff-raff, who were ignorant of the agreement for the submission of their fellows; and these would not allow the fathers to pass.
For the winds rebelled against the ship at the island of Mindoro, and so frightful a tempest arose that the galleon was all but lost, and in danger of going to pieces on some high reefs about that island.
The author mentions a number of disastrous shipwrecks occurring at various times in the islands, describing especially that of the "Victoria" in 1660, which had been sent to Zamboanga and Ternate with reënforcements of men.
Spanish arraezes: a term applied to the captains of Moorish vessels; here probably referring to the captains of the champansor other small vessels sent to convey the rice, etc.
He was awaited at the bar by the forces of the insurgents, who supposed that he had come in the champans which they saw endeavoring to occupy the bar.
We took our departure, the two champansremaining anchored there.
On December 22 General Esteybar began the march by land; on the twenty-fourth General Don Felipe de Ugalde set out by sea, with four champans and under their protection a joanga.
At the same time he gained the opportunity of seeing one of the champans of General Felipe de Ugalde arrive at the bar; it had been sent to reconnoitre those coasts, under the appearance of selling merchandise.
Twenty champans brought to Mariveles the Sangleys from neighboring provinces, to join the Manila insurgents; but a Spanish and Pampango force went out against than, who sank eleven of the champans and killed six hundred and fifty men.
On January 18, news was received that the fleet of our champans encountered the pirates in the entrance of Mindoro, eight in number.
Then came news that one night the flagship and one other of the champans that had sailed from Manila had collided.
They declared that they were building two champans on the Pangasinan coast, of the heaviest planking, and suitable for fighting.
Two days previous they had been attacked by two champans of Chinese pirates--who were beaten off, however, because our vessel had sufficient defense.
Of the two champans that went with Captain Cristobal Marquez, one foundered in mid-ocean, with its men and the money.
Consequently, a few champans under command of Don Pedro Bermudez were again sent against them.
He states that he met somechampans which had been pursued by the enemy, whom they thought to have been Camucones.
Having obtained a foothold, the said Dutch enemy spent part of April and almost all of May in that year, with two champans and a round sailing vessel called "filipote" [i.
He was also angry at the little reputation that he had gained in the battle between the champans in the preceding year; and at the little advantage that he had obtained from the attempt against the fort of Jolo, as will soon be told.
Eight champans were prepared, of which six reached their destination, besides one despatched from Zebú.
As champans are but insecure craft, and badly managed, inasmuch as they are manned by Sangleys, I sent some sailors to serve as pilots.
The next day the rest of the champans and caracoas of our fleet began to arrive, and the governor at once appointed Captain Mena as head of the fleet for all the time while we should be at Mindanao.
When the procession was over, we set fire to the mosque and the fort; and the troops commenced to embark in good order, in the small champans of the fleet.
I would not fail to write of what happened on Tuesday, when the champans departed.
Here Nicolas Gonçalez waited with eight caracoas to tow the champans through La Silanga, which is a strait of the sea two leguas long, between the great island of Mindanao and another and small island.
This revolt caused great anxiety to the governor, Don Gabriel Curucelaegui, on account of the many champans which had come that year from China; but in the course of time the danger disappeared.
It must also be noted that the Chinese champans carried home considerable cargoes of sibucao, sugar, and other products of the islands, in exchange for their stuffs.
Cattle draw the fruit from here to Bay, where small Sangley and Japanese champans are found.
Chapter XVII Of how our religious tried to go to great China During this time two Chinese junks or champans came to Manila to trade.
Thence goods are transported in champans to Ilong-ilong, where the port is located, and where the vessels are laden.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "champans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
