Its head was two and one-half palmos long, [436] and its teeth were large.
The bottom part is built about two palmos above the water and is of planks fastened with wooden pegs, which are very well made; above that they are entirely made of very large bamboos.
Each cane was at the lowest part about three palmos in circumference, which crosswise or in diameter would be about one palmo.
The other natives emulously presented cocoa-nuts, sweet canes, and other fruits, and water in joints of cane four palmos long and one thick.
They are of wood, interwoven with very large canes having joints of more than 5 palmos [49] in length, and of the thickness of a man's arm.
Their arms are thick and heavy lances of palm-wood, about 30 palmos long, and clubs of the same wood.
Tablas de Caxas de a tres, i a quatro palmos de largo.
There are bejucos or Indian canes for walking-sticks, with their branches as much as five and one-half palmos long; they are of better luster and of greater toughness than are those gathered by the Dutch in the islands of the Sonda.
I have seen them so large that they were four palmos in circumference.
They also measure by brazas and palmos (but for the vara, I find no proper Tagálog term, but only the Spanish).
The very rice fields swarm with eels, shrimps, and a species of fish called dalag, which is about two palmos long and more than two inches thick.
The clothing of the women is plainer, and such that it becomes indecent; for from the small mantas or textiles of these regions, which are all very thin, they make a sack nine palmos long and open at both ends.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palmos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
