polaccas

He adds that Tunis had then but fourteen polaccas; Salē thirty very swift caravels, drawing little water on account of the harbour bar; and

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

We found moored in the port several Greek brigs, polaccas, and feluccas, with their long yards and pointed lateen sails; and the fine steam-boat which was to carry us to Genoa.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

On the following morning, while they were embarking on board the polaccas which were to take them to

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

But in 1634 Father Dan found twenty-five thousand Christian slaves in the city of Algiers and roundabout, without counting eight thousand renegades, and so far was the fleet from being diminished (except that there were few galleys) that the priest reckoned no less than seventy sailing cruisers, from large thirty-five and forty-gun ships, to ordinary galleons and polaccas; and on August 7th he himself saw twenty-eight of the best of them sail away in quest of Norman and English ships, which usually came to Spain at that season to take in wine, oil, and spices.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

Just now, all that enchanted world and fairy architecture floated in the air; little by little all has become distinct; those points of dark green turn into gardens; that mass of deep red is the line of the ship-building yards, with their leprous-looking houses and with the dark-colored stocks on which are erected the skeletons of polaccas and feluccas in course of construction; the white line showing so bright in the sun is the Riva dei Schiavoni, all alive with its world of gondoliers, fruit-sellers, Greek sailors, and Chioggiotes in their many-colored costumes.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885

“We know,” he said in a letter to Ball, “there would be no difficulty for single polaccas to sail from the shores of Italy with 300 or 400 men in each, (single ships;) and that, in the northerly winds, they would have a fair chance of not being seen, and even if seen, not to be overtaken by the Russian ships.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

"We know," he said in a letter to Ball, "there would be no difficulty for single polaccas to sail from the shores of Italy with

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

Jubilee, "with its brilliant overture, is the finest), some masses, of which that in E flat is the most beautiful, and several concertos, besides many brilliant rondos, polaccas, and marches for the piano.

The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876