tenoras

Updated: May 1, 2025

These barques, like the others, are dug out of a single tree-trunk, but are less well shaped and less easy to handle than those used by the cannibals and the natives of Hispaniola. They are called gallitas. The natives all brought strings of pearls, which are called tenoras, and showed themselves desirous of Spanish merchandise.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera