Nearly an hundred Spaniards, and many thousand Indian allies, were killed; the fleets of canoes and piraguas were destroyed, and several brigantines wholly ruined.
He decoyed two of the largest brigantines into a certain bay, where many of his strongest piraguas lay in ambush among the reeds.
The largest was wide enough to admit two or three of the largest piraguas abreast, and the smaller ones seemed intended only for the private gondolas of the royal family.
But here is my thought: he is a good sailor, especially in piraguas and galleys: give him a brigantine.
One of the piraguas got straight across to the landing, but the other was forced some way down by the current, and had to be towed up.
Their native barks or piraguas are formed of from three to five planks, sewed together, and caulked with a species of moss which grows on a particular shrub.
The navigation in this archipelago is difficult and even dangerous owing to the strength and number of the currents, and nothing can appear worse adapted for so perilous a sea than the piraguas or boats which are used by the islanders.
The scanty population of the island attempted to oppose the disembarkation of the troops, but being soon dispersed by the artillery, they retired in their piraguas to the continent.
Indeed the famished Spaniards had scarcely completed their encampment, when numerous piraguas arrived from the different islands, loaded with maize, fruit, and fish, all of which the natives distributed gratuitously among them.
But our landing will be effected in canoes and piraguas and open boats," cried an officer impatiently.
Then, all being aboard the three ships, with the treasure safely stowed in their holds and the slaves under hatches, the buccaneers weighed anchor and stood out for the bar, each vessel towing three piraguas astern.
He saw that the piraguas towed by each vessel were being warped alongside, and he wondered a little what this manoeuver might portend.
And there, indeed, went the piraguas on their way back to the ships.
There was a daring raid effected by means of several appropriated piraguas upon a Spanish pearl fleet in the Rio de la Hacha, from which they had taken a particularly rich haul of pearls.
Awhile those piraguas were hidden from view behind the hulls.
So considerate was he that to assist them he presented them with several of the piraguas which he still had in tow.
When the piraguas arrived, he ordered them to be taken to pieces, and the spikes kept for making others, when they should be needed.
He went to look at the river, and saw that near it there was much timber of which piraguas might be made, and a good situation in which the camp might be placed.
As the town toward which the Governor marched was near the river, he sent a captain, with the force he thought sufficient, to take the piraguas up the stream.
So soon as they had come to shore the piraguas returned; and when the sun was up two hours high, the people had all got over.
Soon after discerning twelve piraguas and three long barks coasting in the distance, they retreated to their docks in the river, and ran their bark ashore to render it useless to the Spaniards, placing an ambuscade of 150 men along the banks.
While at La Puna, the Buccaneers sallied out to attack two Spanish armadillas, but not having any piraguas to tow them to the windward, could only cannonade at a distance.
The town is built on two rising grounds, and in the valley that separates them; through which a rivulet runs into the bay, at a mole which affords sufficient protection to the boats and piraguas frequenting the port.
Several piraguas were lost while we were at Chiloe, and, as may be inferred, their crews were all drowned.
The arrival of so many piraguas at San Carlos creates no slight bustle in the neighbourhood of the mole; and a stranger happening to arrive at the time would think it a place of considerable trade; the return, however, of the N.
He constantly sent out some vessels every night to scour the lake, and on one occasion they brought in some prisoners of consequence, from whom he learnt that the enemy had formed another ambuscade of forty large piraguas and as many canoes.
As soon as they arrived at the place, the thirty piraguas immediately surrounded them, and wounded every officer, soldier, and mariner on board, by their first flight of arrows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piraguas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
