While writing this relation, these forty Spaniards arrived in a ship, less four sailors who wished to remain in the kingdom of Camboja, whither went all those who remained in the lanchas after the galleons left them.
The lanchas attacked them; and, while fighting with them, fire was set to two jars of powder that the Spaniards had there.
They went to the kingdom of Champa, and anchored at Pulo Condor, where they sent out their lanchas with forty Spaniards, and about twenty Indians and negroes, to see whether they could get the water which was very necessary to them.
The lanchas were sent after them and defeated them, and brought them to the galleons.
The cost of such fragatas and lanchas in these islands would be six thousand pesos de Tipusque [111] all finished and ready for sailing.
A score of Chimbote lanchas were as big--bigger--and where this telescoped liner would find room for cargo or coal after providing for engines and a galley is a mystery.
Instantly a fine naval engagement was in progress as thelanchas locked like a couple of old Carthaginian galleys.
One day, our lanchas having sailed out, as usual, to reconnoiter, our people saw the heads of some men who were swimming from the enemy's ships to ours.
They also have others, five or six lanchas or small boats, with which they run from place to place in order to give warning to the galleons that are in port.
This they did in seven lanchas and two long-boats abandoning on the shore one of the cattle which they had killed (which were only two).
They burned the convent, and the woodwork of the church, but the fire did not extend to the altar; and they retreated to their lanchas on the same day, without sacking the village.
This was done at once, and was a very important measure; for at ten o'clock at night the enemy sent four armed lanchasto that point to reconnoiter the port.
But the enemy sounded the port that night with its lanchas and found a new channel, where they entered without being hindered by the rampart.
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.
When the enemy saw that the soldiers were deserting the almiranta, they lowered their lanchasand entered it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lanchas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
