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When I had finished saying mass -- this was before dawn -- his Lordship embarked in the falua, and with only six soldiers went to reconnoiter the place, to sound the rivers and harbors of the coast, and to see whether any Moro who could serve as a guide might be captured, for we had none.
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While we were here, a light vessel came from the enemy to reconnoiter our fleet; our falua gave chase, but, being very far away, could not overtake it.
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The falua brought him off to our champan, and he told us how he had fled from the enemy's grain-fields where they had kept him during those days; and that, passing through one of the ravines of the hill, he had found a vast number of dead Moros.
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Nor need your Reverence think that we lost any time because of the contrariety of the winds at Point Nasso that I mentioned; for orders were despatched to the Pintados Islands by the Indian volunteers, and sent to Othon with the _falua_ [80] by Adjutant Don Francisco Olozaran -- who returned in a champan with the father rector of Othon, Father Francisco Angel, [81] and Father
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His Lordship arrived at that place with the aforesaid father, in the falua, three days before we did, in order to have time to visit the fort, and see whether the boats of Captain Briones were prepared for the relief of our troops in Mindanao.
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Don B — o H — a and his family accompanied us to the ship in the government falua.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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Don Geromino Valdés, sent his falua to bring us to the city, and even wished us to go to his palace; but Don B--- o H--- a, who gave us so hospitable a reception on our first visit, came on board, and kindly insisted on taking us to his house, where we found everything as elegant and comfortable as before, and from whence I now write these few lines.
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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H--- a and his family accompanied us to the ship in the government _falua_.
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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Vox ultima fpurium quid relipit: certe falua fentenriai, abeffe poteft.
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Beulin, falua tenentia & dignitate aduocacionis, quam mihi & heredibus meis tam vita quam in morte tenentur.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
alberti commented on the word falua
s. f.,
embarcação de vela, semelhante à fragata, mas mais pequena.
July 2, 2008