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Updated: May 3, 2025
The animal measured, from its shoulders to the tip of its tail, five brazas, and from the shoulders to the mouth one braza making its total length six brazas; and across the breast alone measured a full braza.
A small river enters the sea 950 brazas south of the tower of Abuyog. Gobius giuris Buch. Ham. The lake at that time had but one outlet, but in the wet season it may be in connection with the Mayo, which, at its north-east side, is quite flat. Or some thirty-eight yards if the old Dutch ell is meant.
The field is then changed, or other fruits cultivated thereon, but with the addition of manure. A piece of land, fifty brazas long, and thirty wide, is sufficient for the support of a family. Only occasionally in the wet season does this resource fail, and then they resort to gabi, which appears to be as easily cultivated on wet as on dry ground, but is not so profitable as batata.
The mines go far into the earth, one ten brazas, another twenty, and the greatest mine, which is called Guarnacabo goes into the earth some forty brazas. They have no light, nor are they broader than is necessary for one person to enter crouching down, and until the man who is in the mine comes out, no other can go in.
They then resolved to cast anchor, hoping in this way to gain some safety for the vessel, and thus they remained during an entire night in twenty-six brazas of water, exposed to great danger, and in fear of being lost.
We found it covered with green confervae; a double border of pistia and broad-leaved reed grasses, six to seven feet high, enclosing it all round. On the south and west some low hillocks rose up, while from the middle it appeared to be almost circular, with a girdle of forest. Soundings showed a gently inclined basin, eight brazas, or over thirteen meters, deep in the middle.
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