In a letter of last year I told your Majesty how the sargento-mayor went to La Laguna, which is about fifteen leguas from this city, in pursuit of the Sangley rebels.
The next day we learned that this vision, or cross, had been seen at the same time in another village, one or two leguas distant from this one.
After Lent and Easter, one of the fathers visited, by way of recreation (for such are the vacations which they enjoy there), some pagan villages which are about six leguas from the city.
We are compelled to overlook these things, and others of more importance, that we may not experience worse trouble; for we are unable to do more, as your Majesty is five thousand leguas from here, and redress comes so slowly.
On account of his qualifications he has obtained the best benefices which have been assigned; and at present has the district of Tabuco, twelve leguas from this city.
This sign lasts until the ship is one hundred leguas from land; and then are discovered certain fish, with half the body in the form of a dog; [436] these frolic with one another near the ship.
There the vessels that enter to escape the vendaval find shelter, and wait until the brisa returns, by which to go to Manila, eighty leguas away.
Don Pedro de Acuna, through his pilots' fault, had gone thirty leguas to leeward of the island of Terrenate toward the island of Celebes, otherwise called Mateo.
There is another good port called Ybalon, [295] twenty leguas from the channel of the same island of Luzon, which is sheltered from the vendavals, and has a good entrance and anchorage.
It lies in an altitude of ten and two-thirds degrees, and is about one thousand five hundred and thirty five leguas from Lima.
When he arrived at Jolo, at the bar of the river of this island, which is two leguas from the principal town and dwellings of the king, he landed his men, artillery, and the necessary provisions and left his ships under a sufficient guard.
This gulf is traversed for many leguas with such winds as are encountered, until a latitude of forty-two degrees is reached, toward the coast of Nueva Espana.
Twenty leguas south after turning this cape of Espiritu Santo lie the island of Viri, and many others which are sighted.
When we started, the wind was so light that my fear increased because we did not sail one hundred leguas in thirteen days.
But it is thought that they are in Camboja, for that king is friendly to us, and will have welcomed them, as they were only eight leguas from the bar of Camboja.
The other galleon had its troubles too, but it was fortunate in making port at Sanchuan on the Chinese coast, where our father St. Francis Javier died, about thirty leguasfrom Macan.
He went to seize another port on the same island of Hermosa, some twenty leguas distant from China and thirty from the enemy.
In the port of Cavite, which lies three leguas away from and opposite the city of Manila, four very fine galleons were being equipped, that in size and strength could compare with the best in the world.
It was known afterward, because on their return a sudden squall struck the Chinese ship twoleguas from Nangasaqui.
The bay is eight leguas around, and an anchoring-place is on the north side.
Yet every year he used to make a visit to Pangasinan, where he was received as an angel from heaven, and sometimes carried almost by force to distant villages, by Indians who came more than twenty leguas for the purpose.
For the benefit of souls he made journeys of twelve leguas on foot, over very bad roads and in the heat of the sun.
The second mandarin before whom they were brought sent them to the third; and he despatched them to the viceroy, forty leguas away in the city of Ucheo.
That island of Mindanao is the farthest of the Filipinas Islands, and is about twenty leguas from Cibu.
To the east of all these islands is one called Vatachina, or Gilolo, lying two or three leguas from these--a very large island, where your Majesty has two forts.
Eighteen leguas farther east lies the island of Banda, where nutmeg is gathered; and the Dutch have another fortress there.
Toward the east it reaches as far as the village called Calilaya, forty leguas from the city on the same island.
It is more than two hundred and fifty leguas around, and is very fertile and rich, being inhabited by the best people in those islands; their king is friendly, very peaceful, and glad to trade with the Spaniards.
The island of Tidore is distant about two leguas from this, and, although smaller, has about the same aspect.
Having awaited favorable weather there, the commander (one Don Francisco de Serna) had come, and had arrived on the coast of Pangasinan, twenty leguas from where the Dutch were stationed.
It is believed that he will cause them to await his letters in Mindoro, which is thirty leguas from Manila, all the month of August or but slightly less.
It was ascertained from a spy, who was the one who sent advices of what the enemy was doing, that two ships were six leguas from there, and the rest at Playa Honda.
But in Joló it is apt to be more often found, because those islands are scattered and their coasts prolonged for many leguas opposite many currents and channel-mouths.
The island of Ticao is about twenty-three leguas in circumference, nine long, and more than four wide.
The mountains called Zambàles extend a distance of fifty leguasfrom Mount Batàn to the plains of Pangasinàn in the island of Luzòn.
It is about fifty leguas in circumference, nineteenleguas long and five or six broad.
The island of Ticào is about nine leguas long, four and one-half wide, and about twenty-three leguas in circumference.
For that purpose, it was absolutely necessary for them to sail many leguas by boisterous seas, or to travel by land in some parts by rough mountains, threatened in the one place with shipwreck and in the other by continual dangers.
Having doubled that point, and after one has navigated ten or twelve leguas northward one comes to the village and district of Palànan, which belongs to the bishopric and province of Cagayàn or Nueva Segovia.
Las Casas has the following on the province of Honduras at the time of the conquest: 'Tenia Pueblos innumerables, y una vega de treinta leguas y mas, toda muy poblada .
It is a large and pleasant island in the form of an oblong, eight long leguas in length and about four wide.
Those islands lie west of the island of Panai, which is one of the largest of the Filipinas, being eightyleguas long, but narrow in its breadth, and extends north and south from ten to twelve and one-half degrees.
The convent of Sidargào, [56] which is an island ten leguasdistant from the fort of Tanda, has two thousand Christian families.
The convent of Laylaia (which sounds the same as [the name of] the river above), is forty leguasdistant from Butuan.
The shape of the lake is oval, and its circumference fifty leguas or more, according to report.
The first island, and that which is first encountered from the course of Mindoro, about fifty leguas across from Luban, is Calamian the great, which gives name to the whole province.
That bay is affirmed to be one of the largest and best that men can see in all the world, for it is thirty leguas in circumference, and has an island of six miles at its mouth, where a sentinel is always stationed.
It is six leguas in circuit, as are two others its near neighbors, which rival it in beauty.
The only ones still to be conquered on that long coast were the scattered people of Sigayan, about eight leguas north of Masinloc.
They ascended its waters even to their source, which is the lake of Linao, about fifty leguas in circuit.
Residence of Cabo de Spirita Santo, or Palapac This residence extends for forty leguas more rather than less--within the island of Ybabao, and includes the two adjacent islets of Lavan and Biri.
So desirous was he of the salvation of the Indian races that he said: "If Spain were only two leguas away, I should not care to go thither.
Residence of Bohol Only this island of Bohol, which is forty leguas in circumference, and the islet of Bacacay belong to the king, our sovereign, in all the territory in charge of the Society.
While the people remained in this dread, the news was confirmed by another message, that came on November 3 from the town of Arevalo, eighty leguas from Manila.
Since from that point to Panama it is only fiveleguas overland, the men might be taken there easily and at little expense.
Those who escaped alive began to march overland toward this city, someleguas distant from the place where the misfortune occurred.
Consequently Governor Juan de Silva entered upon his government with the intention of fortifying the port of Cavite, where our ships anchor, distant about three leguas from the city.
At the end of that time, they had a favorable wind, with the aid of which they entered the channel used by the ships of Castilla, many leguas from their right and usual path, and at last reached port in safety after the victory.
The fleet left Cavite on Wednesday, April 21, between ten and eleven, in search of the enemy, who were at Playahonda, twenty leguas from Manila.
There the passengers and goods are disembarked, and are afterward carried by mules to the City of Mexico, which is eighty leguas distant thence.
This lake is in the island of Mindanao, opposite the island of Bohol; from north to south it is eight leguas long, and it is four leguas wide.
In size, Mindanao rivals the island of Manila, the chief and head of the others, for it is almost three hundredleguas in circumference.
He placed these in battle-array, and marched with them to attack the village, without knowing that it was so well fortified as was the case, as he understood that all their force was about one and one-half leguas inland on a high hill.
Cochinchina is one hundred and twenty leguas [from Macan], and is reached by going outside that island.
Among those who escaped by flight was Corralat; he fled, badly wounded, to some small villages that he owned, which were four leguas distant from the hill.
Tumquin is ninety leguas from Macan, and is reached by traveling between the island of Ainao [i.
As the [American] coast is neared, at a distance of sixty, eighty, or one hundred leguas signs are to be seen in the sea by which it is recognized that the ship is within that distance.
If radical treatment is needed, there is no other remedy than to sail a hundred or two hundred leguas to Manila, where there is not an over-supply of Galens.
Father Alexandro Lopez went to announce the gospel at Pangutaran, (an island distant six leguas east from Jolo), and as the people were a simple folk they received the law of Christ with readiness .
The island of Basilan, or Taguima, is three or four leguas south of Samboangan, east from Borney, and almost northeast from Jolo.
He was a native of San Pedro de las Duenas, two leguas from Segovia, and was a professed son of the convent at Valladolid, whence he came to this province in 1598.
The result, however, was not as was expected; for by bad navigation we had gone many leguasto leeward of the port.
Some of the convents are on the shore of the sea; others, on the bank of a copious river, which is navigated by canoes for a distance of sixty leguas up the river.
The flagship had not been heard of, and the other ship was at Churdumuco, which is a large town eight leguas from the port and eighty from the sea.
The force of the tides is so great that, when the tide is coming in, it is impossible to make head against it; and as they were fifty leguas from the sea, it was easy to follow and catch them.
They were seized by the Chinese, and carried about for many leguas from one judge to another.
Cagayan], five or six leguas higher up than the city of the Spaniards.
A storm arose soon after, and the flagship was obliged to run before the wind; it made port in Malaca, more than two hundred leguas to leeward of its destination, and was unable to return for three months.
The Indians here told us that there were some pirates in that sea; that they were anchored about five leguas off, and that we should have to pass them.
We reached an island named Pulotimon, [16] which is forty leguas from Malaca.
This we intended to make use of by sending it to ask for aid from Nueva Segovia, which was only twenty leguas distant.
They said that large vessels went up the river, and that it was many leguas to windward of this place.
The wealthy village of Manila is only seventy leguas from Cebú.
Each of them is located about forty leguas from this port.
That cape lies in a latitude of thirty-four and one-half degrees, and is one thousand six hundred leguas [634] from the cape of Malaca.
After that event they reached certain islets, located about seven hundred leguasfrom this port.
The nearest land from the Chinese, namely, Ybalon and the Camarines, is fifty or sixty leguas from this port.
That lake is of fresh water, is thirty leguasin circumference, and its marge and [surrounding] mountains are densely populated.
That river flows from a lake located about six leguas from the city.
We have no place where we can get anything, and no boats to get what we need, for most of the villages in the entire radius of more than forty leguas are deserted and depopulated.
They are said to have calked these, for want of pitch, with their own blood; and to have carried them on their shoulders for several leguas over land, until they succeeded in launching them into the sea, and fled under full sail.
It is a little more than a hundred leguas in circumference, and, in all its extent, most temperate and fertile.
The enemy placed and fortified themselves in a very strong place called San Pablo de los Montes, about fifteen leguas from this city, more or less.
Thence he went on to the other army which was situated in a place called Vatangas, about six leguas from the first.
This island is three leguas distant by sea from Ibabao, for which reason our fathers could not visit it as often as the people desired.
Tigbauan has a very beautiful district, with many villages extending more than six leguas along the coast of the sea; the entire district is well supplied with game, fruits, and vegetables, and fish from the sea.
This station lies in the interior of the island of Leite, five leguas distant from Carigara.
With this island on the left, and the great island of Manila on the right, we enter directly the Filipinas Islands, leaving the islands of the Ladrones three hundred leguas behind.
Fourteen or fifteen leguaspast the island of Mindoro to the southwest, are the islands called Calamianes, which number about seventeen.
Two leguas from it is that of Tidore, and then comes Mutiel.
That island is about two hundred leguas or so long and runs from the east to the north, from about thirteen and one-half degrees [of latitude] to about nineteen or a trifle less.
In the east it has a width of about one day's journey from one sea to the other, or a trifle more; and in the north is thirty or forty leguas wide.
It is large, being almost three hundred and fifty leguas in circumference; and has more than twenty bays and ports where ships of all sizes can anchor.
That island is somewhat prolonged for fifteen or twenty leguas, and is eight leguas wide.
It serves as a watch-tower to look for foreign ships, which can be seen fifteen leguas at sea.
This island of Sebu is an island of more than one hundred leguas in circumference.
Legaspe left a guard there and went to occupy Luzon, one hundred and fifty leguas from Zebû.
Lower down is the island of Borneo, a very large island, more than five hundred leguasin circumference.
The whole island is more than four hundred leguas in circumference.
Our ships sail between the two islands of Guan and Çarpana toward the Filipinas and the cape of Espiritu Santo, a distance of three hundred leguas farther on, in the latitude of about thirteen degrees.
It is founded on the bank of a river, four leguas inland from the sea, and its houses are of wood.
Near this island lies an islet eight leguas in circumference, which is densely populated by natives who are all carpenters.
It is thirty leguas in circumference, and has an uninhabited island in its middle, where game abounds.
Those villages are more than twenty leguas distant from the central town Bacarra; and their people are a barbarous and spirited nation, and for that reason are feared by the Indians round about.
On the last day we descended a hill two leguas in length, although some said it was longer.
If these islands were three thousand leguas nearer, that office would doubtless not be second in importance to those of America.
This island so abounds with these people that they are encountered at six leguas from Manila.
Bañgui is distant four long leguasfrom the first settlement of the Payaos,and one must ascend a river with a strong current.
It is located on a height, and the whole lake of Bay (which is thirty leguas in circumference) and some islands in its midst, could be seen from a balcony.
The bar of this river is about two leguas from the town.
Then the entrance expands into the most beautiful bay that I think the world possesses; for it is more than forty leguas in circumference.
This island is more than twenty leguas from Manila on one side; on the other it is so near that there are but two or three leguas to cross, namely, by way of Batangas.
It can be seen from the plaza of Sugbú, from which it is slightly more than three leguas distant.
It is about forty leguas in circumference, counting in its gulfs and bays.
This place lies two leguas by land from Bulacán, and there is an excellent highway.
For two leguas up the river [61] is our convent of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, which is built of stone.
They went closer to it, and saw a small island, which was seemingly about three leguas in circumference.
Nueva Guinea is near the equator, and stretches east three hundred leguas and north live or six degrees.
So successful was this that "as yet no more fire or smoke has been seen, and that island, about four leguas in circuit, has fields and cows, and the inhabitants of Taal sow and reap their harvests in their land.
He commenced at Humbe, thirty leguas from Malaca, where, the Dutch have a factory for pepper.
Pena de Francia is a lofty mountain in the province and diocese of Salamanca, twelve leguas from this city and seven from Ciudad-Rodrigo.
They lived forty leguas distant, and, being all heathen, had need of someone to labor among them.
The reason was that the Indians lived in hamlets so distant one from another that it was often necessary to travel six leguas when they were called to confess a sick person.
It is a hundred and fifty leguasfrom Manila, and constitutes a part of the island of Lucon.
We now return to those on the other ship, which we left at the port of Cavite--whence the news was immediately carried to Manila, which is two leguas from that port.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leguas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
