I am having some galliots and light vessels built to patrol all these coasts, because their defense is quite important if we are attacked by the Japanese.
Three galliots in addition seems to be a large enough force to sweep this sea and make it safe, so that the Chinese merchants can go and come from their country with greater safety.
In four minutes the swift Mr. Stendhal had walked me across the wharf in sabots to one of the galliots in the canal, which he ordered under way at once, to pick up Argyle at sea.
A few Dutch galliots lay moored ahead of us, with long scarlet pennons on their mastheads.
When the time was near expired, two galliots actually made their appearance and came into the harbour, though intended upon a different course.
This blinded the viceroy, who immediately fitted out 14 of the largest galliots with a fliboat and a pink, and sent them to Aracan under the command of Francisco de Menezes Roxo, who had formerly commanded in Ceylon.
The Dutch pink fired the first gun, and then the fight began with great fury, the Portuguese galliots bravely advancing against the vast hostile fleet.
All the fleet being now united before the fort, it was found that Cuneale had drawn up a line of armed galliots on the edge of the water under the wall of his fort, in case of being attacked that way.
About the end of February 1532, Emanuel de Vasconcelles was sent to the Red Sea with two galliots and several brigantines to cruise against the Turks.
The larger ship and the galliot stationed themselves in an entrance where the galliots from India enter and those for Japon leave.
The galliots entered the latter place safely, for the Dutch ships were no longer in the strait, as I shall recount later in order not to interrupt at present the thread of our history of our galleons and their adventures.
They judged the matter by the effect and not by what might have happened had the enemy captured their galliots with so great a sum of silver.
I said above that when our galleons arrived at Macan with the galliots they did not find the Dutch ships, and I said that I would tell why; and I shall do so now, before passing on.
I shall accordingly try to do so as soon as possible, and for that purpose I shall use the galliots which I have said that I intend to build.
On the way, the patache encountered four Portuguese galliotswhich were coming from Macan loaded with goods.
Of the three galliots out at anchor in the channel yesterday, only one is left .
Plenty of local galliots travel it, but strangers never, I should say.
There is still, however, a little trade with the mainland in galliots and lighters, a few of which come from the "siels" on the mainland.
We were generally in solitude, but occasionally we met galliots like the Johannes tacking through the sands, and once or twice we found a fleet of such boats anchored in a gut, waiting for water.
This continued its course west, directly parallel to the island, and in it, at a distance of half a mile from us, three galliots lay at anchor.
A couple of tugs, a dredger, and a ferry packet with steam up, were moored on that side--a small stack of galliots on the other.
Several smacks had run in too, and there were two galliots farther up our channel, but we couldn't make out if the Kormoran was one.
Another Portuguese captain, who went out to sea with some vessels, captured some of the little galliots of the Moros and some Dutch lanchas.
They entered without finding any obstruction, because the enemy had gone out to sea; and the four hours of their absence were enough to enable the galliots to enter.
Nothing was ever heard of three of the Dutch ships; but the others came to lie in wait for the Portuguese galliots loaded with silks which the Portuguese import into Japan.
He and his household are going with their goods in the galliots which are now leaving this city for Yndia.
A few days after, three galliots arrived from Macan, laden with a rich cargo of silks and other merchandise.
The three Portuguese galliots returned to Malaca, taking with them the Dutch who were in Maluco and the Portuguese captains and soldiers who had come to take part in this expedition.
He sailed from Goa with six galleons of the kingdom, fourteengalliots and fustas, and other ships, and one thousand five hundred fighting men, and with supplies and munitions for the fleet.
Of these the 44 galliots were almost as useful as the galleys.
Besides these vessels there were also two galliots and other small boats laden with provisions, and sheltered by the fleet, and ready to render assistance should occasion arise.
This was attributed to the fault and negligence of those who could and ought to have prevented the lanchas from making soundings, because of the many galliots in the port.
Four galliots have come from Yndia with flour and a certain quantity of saltpetre, of which we were in great need.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "galliots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
