botijos

Updated: May 26, 2025

If they wanted wine, he said, they had better put in at San Barnardo, and empty some of the caches in the sand there, where they had buried many bottles. Seven days later Drake put in at San Barnardo for the same commodity, "finding but twelve botijos of wine of all the store we left, which had escaped the curious search of the enemy who had been there, for they were deep in the ground."

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

Bernards in their way, and there take in some such portion as they thought good, of the wines which we had there hidden in the sand. Bernards, finding but twelve botijos of wine of all the store we left, which had escaped the curious search of the enemy, who had been there; for they were deep in the ground. The manner of it, as we learned by examination of the company, was this.

- Sir Francis Drake Revived