caravels

"Funny, what you think you're going to do with those three or four little ships – caravels is it you call 'em?" the

Spice and the Devil's Cave 1930

The example of the Pinzons at length overcame all opposition, and the three vessels, two of them known as caravels, not superior to the coasting craft of more modern days, were got ready by the beginning of

Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

They were called caravels, a name then given to the smallest three-masted vessels.

The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time. 1891

They were light, frail barks called caravels, and two of them, the _Pinta_ and _Nina_, had no decks.

Discoverers and Explorers 1879

The two other vessels were of the class called caravels, and were decked fore and aft, but not amidships, the stem and the stern being built so as to rise high out of the water.

The Life of Columbus Arthur Helps 1844

Two of them were light barques, called caravels, not superior to river and coasting craft of more modern days ....

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Three hundred leguas before reaching land, signs of it are seen, by certain _aguas malas_, [264] as large as the hand, round and violet colored, with a crest in the middle like a lateen sail, which are called _caravelas_ [ "caravels"].

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

Three hundred leguas before reaching land, signs of it are seen, by certain aguas malas, [435] as large as the hand, round and violet colored, with a crest in the middle like a lateen sail, which are called caravelas [ "caravels"].

History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597

_Peter Colon_, with _thirty-five_ ships, called caravels, and _a great number of men_ to other much larger islands abounding in mines of gold, not so much, however, for the sake of the gold, as for the salvation of the poor heathen natives. "

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

On his second voyage Columbus loaded five hundred Indian slaves aboard returning caravels.

Columbus: The Far Left is Dead Right, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009