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Letter of June 25: "Besides the above private ships four large pancos and four small vintas have made their appearance in the straits of San Bernardino. * Their force amounts from four hundred and fifty to five hundred men. * Already they have killed sixteen men, kidnapped ten, and captured one ship." In Chamisso's time it was even worse.
Every day there are several arrivals from the various sea-ports of the different districts of the islands, of brigs, schooners, pontines, galeras, caracoas, and pancos, all of them being curious specimens of every variety of ship-building, from the black and low snake-like schooner, or handsome brig, to the most rude description of vessel built.
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