Pont Gravé remained at Tadoussac expecting, if he did nothing there, to take a patache and meet me at the fall.
The same day a patache arrived, bringing provisions for the numerous barques of which our party consisted.
Finding that the said patache had escaped them, and that it had already cast anchor in a safe port, they launched their small boats well manned with crews and arms and some versos.
In July of that same year a patache came to these islands, quite beyond the scanty hope that we had.
Everything was a miracle, and no less than had happened many days in those ports; and the day when the said patache entered, God covered it with the shade of a cloud so dense that it was sufficient to hide it from the enemy.
The patache "San Diego" took Father Diego Luís de San Vitores and his associates to the islands of Marianas to begin that spiritual conquest.
Keeping him in very close imprisonment, a suit was commenced against him for lack of courage, because he had burned the patache before it was necessary.
In 1648 a patache reaches the islands in safety, although it has to be burned, immediately after unlading, to save it from the Dutch; but those enemies thereupon leave the islands, which they have not since infested.
The patache "San Diego" left Cavite to accompany it, under charge of Admiral Bartolomé Muñoz.
The usual discomforts of the voyage were experienced, but the patache at last anchored at Lampon.
A patache arrived at Manila on December 27 from Macan, laden with five thousand arrobas of iron for Captain Juan Lopez de Ariduin.
Yesterday, July 23, at dawn, a Macan patache anchored in this roadstead.
On April 18 came the flagship and patache of the Terrenate relief ships; they say that the almiranta was driven to leeward of them near Macasar.
The patache "San Nicolas" is going with the relief for Terrenate; its chief pilot is Captain Machado, a pilot of long standing and great experience.
October 31, the patache from the island of Hermosa entered this port.
October 24, the patache from the island of Hermosa entered the port, and it brought back most of the people in those forts.
The statement of the pilot of the patache is that they have been driven out because they proceeded in the preaching with but little caution, and I regard that as true.
Today, July 18, the patachesails with the reenforcements for the island of Hermosa, under the command of Don Pedro Fernandez del Rio.
From one of our foreign seamen, a Scotchman who in secret visited Aberdeyne, we learned that Queen Elizabeth was sending out a swift patache to scour the whole northern coast for any traces of the Armada.
For an instant my heart leapt; these were men of the great Armada, come up from the wreck of some lost galleon or patache to visit once again the glimpses of the Moon.
This patache made its voyage very prosperously, and passed the Embocadero without any difficulty, reaching the port of Cavite, where it remained until Mateo de Urquiza sailed with the galleon "Santo Christo de Burgos" for Nueva Espana.
About this time arrived a patache from Macan, in which came a nobleman belonging to the Order of Christ, named Don N.
Inasmuch as they could not take all the provisions necessary, I despatched another patachefrom this city, but it was also wrecked on these coasts.
The flagship ran aground in the sand; but, the masts having been cut down, it and the patache were put out of danger.
I am momentarily expecting a patache which was bought there, in which the ambassadors are coming.
Shortly after the twentieth of March, a galliot and a patache were despatched in which two pilots sailed, those most experienced in navigation.
Also I did the same with a small patache and the galleon in which I came, and the Japanese vessel which also came with me from Nueva España.
Captain Andrea Coello came from India in a patache in July last year with despatches from the viceroy.
On the way, the patache encountered four Portuguese galliots which were coming from Macan loaded with goods.
He remained until the royal fleet was ready to sail in search of the enemy; and the said captain supported the sailors and soldiers with his patache and with the moderate aid given him.
This year there went to Japon a patache which the Hollanders had captured in Maluco from the English, and on which there remained some English, badly wounded.
That despatch found me already preparing two galleons and one patache for that purpose, for the conjectures that occupied my mind gave me greater anxiety than did the enemy themselves.
In the year 30 they seized a patache that had been sent there on an embassy from Macan, and aboard which was a messenger whom I sent to them.
Three vessels of 200 tons each sailed out to the attack, and for several days they fired at the French corsair, which, being a patache of light draught, had run up the bay beyond their reach.
Footnote 23: When the Margarita patache failed to meet the galleons at Cartagena, it was given its clearance and allowed to sail alone to Havana--a tempting prey to buccaneers hovering in those seas.
The fleet anchored at Cartagena a second time for ten or twelve days, where it was rejoined by the patache of Margarita[23] and by the merchant ships which had been sent to trade in Terra-Firma.
Opposite Margarita a second patache left the fleet to visit the island and collect the royal revenues, although after the exhaustion of the pearl fisheries the island lost most of its importance.
He says] that for three years past no letters from the islands reached Mejico, because in July of the year 1692 the patache which was going to the Marianas, with more than twenty thousand pesos, was burned while in the very port.
The letter was sent by the patache which the governor was despatching as an express, so that they might know in Mejico and España that the islands were not destroyed.
The Lord made matters better for them by causing the voyage which they were obliged to take to be very calm, for the patache was not built to encounter storms.
The latter, disembarking at Bagatao, set out for this city with the utmost speed, in a fragata belonging to the alcalde-mayor of Leyte; and left orders in the patache that no one should go ashore or write letters.
They were then watching for the patache of Margarita, and a squadron of Spanish ships.
This victory was felt by us, because the enemy took from the patache a quantity of money, three thousand fanegas of rice, and other provisions and munitions belonging to his Majesty.
A galleon likewise set out from Japon with a Dutch patache to come to these coasts, to steal whatever they could, as they have done in years past.
Don Juan de Silva learned the news of the galleons and determined to send a patache to Macan, and as its commander, Pilot Juan Gallegos, in order to purchase some ammunition and to go thence to Malaca.
I shall endeavor to inform myself of it, and of what the person in charge of the patache did, and what he neglected to do; and, punishing the guilt that I shall find, I shall inform your Majesty of everything.
Of the latter only one small patache was lost, which is considered miraculous here because of what has happened on other occasions.
A ship and a patache were sent from this coast of Manila to Maluco.
Accordingly, on the twenty-sixth of October, 619, he embarked in a patache which went as flagship of five galeotas.
The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.
At the time when this advice was received, two galleons and a patache were getting ready, for the affairs which he had mentioned gave him more anxiety than the enemy themselves.
The Portuguese found here a patache from Macan; and consequently, their people went [thither] by the last of October, in the patache.
The galleons and the patache returned; they brought no cloves, for there had been no harvest.
For it is affirmed that when two ships and one patache were coming laden from India to their country, and the ships were wrecked, and the patache saved, from that vessel alone they made up the loss, and had a considerable gain.
The galliot was saved, but the patache was driven ashore twelve leguas from here, on All Saints' day, suffering about twenty-five drowned.
In the following year, 612, there was nothing with which to make the despatch of the ships to Nueva España, because of the losses and expeditions above mentioned, and an advice patachealone was sent.
Don Alonso de Acoçer was commander of the patache which came from Acapulco as almiranta; and Rafael Ome was commander of a galley which had just been finished on the stocks, named "San Francisco Xavier.
He left the Portuguese patache because the governor had taken off the embargo, in order to allow the Portuguese to return with it to Malaca without loss of time.
The Governor sent against them the Oydor Morga with two galleons, an English patache which had come from Malacca, a galiot, and other small vessels.
This squadron was composed of two ships, one small galleon, and a patache (a vessel so called).
In the interim the camp was established in Panay, and the patache San Lucas remained at Zebu, preparing to depart for New Spain.
When the two galleons left Manila, the governor offered to send a patache after them to a certain place, and did so a little later; it was under command of Don Fernando Becerra, with about sixty men.
Our patache continued to retire toward Manila, where it arrived June 6, having lost fifteen men, who died of sickness, among them a Franciscan religious who was aboard.
The other smaller ship and the patache took the other entrance, where the vessels that sail from Manila and other places enter.
The patache set out in search of the galleons, in the direction that had been set.
For that purpose they equipped a patachebefore leaving Macao, while another patache was despatched from Manila to join them.
Consequently, our galleons were left without any patache, for one patache came in with the Siamese ship and the other did not find them.
One patache sprang a leak, and commenced to take in water so badly that it was forced to make port and remain there.
It was rumored among our men that that Dutch patache had captured the champan that our men were sending to Manila--although such a rumor was untrue, for the said champan arrived safely at Manila.
On the eighteenth of February the two galleons and patachesailed out to pursue their voyage.
They left port and found that the flagship of the Dutch was alone; for the galliot which accompanied it had gone to Japon, and the other ship with the patache had gone to their fort on the island of Hermosa.
Half of the men were placed aboard our patache, and soldiers were transferred from the patache to the said Siamese ship.
As the citizens of Manila had no means to lade merchandise, not only the patache but the almiranta came without registers--as also did the capitana, which had to go back to port.
He started to escape, and the patache to pursue him.
They prayed, whereupon a fresh wind immediately came, which took them, against their wish, to an unknown islet, where the patache lost sight of them.
On the contrary, it fled from them, so that, although the patache pursued the mutineers, it could not overtake them.
With two ships and his patache (for his flagship was left in the same location), he approached Cavite.
One day the [Dutch] patache went so far in search of ships that Captain Castillo could not be persuaded that it was not a friendly vessel; consequently he went to give it information, according to his orders.
A patache with twenty-four guns was also lying at Callao, ready to remove the king's plate from Arica.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patache" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
