“I left Manila in a champan, which is a boat used by the Chinese, and in which they come from their country here.”
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“We had here to exchange our bongo for a flat-bottomed boat called a champan, with which alone the upper part of the river can, from its numerous shallows, be navigated.”
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“In another manner, some other religious incited a goodly number of sailors, who, having received their pay to go to Maluco, fled in a boat called "champan," and laid their course toward India.”
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“The commandant had prepared a champan and shackles to send the religious to Manila.”
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“The champan tossed fearfully, so that it was regarded as a good plan to cut down the mast.”
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“But the Lord did not choose that the champan should be lost; for the Camucones did not break it up, as is their wont, but abandoned it after having plundered its articles of value -- which were considerable, and which caused great loss to the province.”
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“This being done, the champan was very quiet; and, although they were in evident danger of death, they did not lose the hopes which they placed in the glorious saint, confident, by his intercession, of life and arrival at Panay.”
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“On August 29 of the same year, he left Manila aboard a champan, the "San Nicolás," belonging to the alcalde-mayor of”
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“Thence he crossed to Manila, after having bargained with a champan of Baco to go for father Fray”
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“He always traveled at small expense, going in a champan, like any other and very ordinary religious.”
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chained_bear "Champans, are small flat-bottomed vessels used by the Chinese and Japanese. They have one mast rigged the same as the main-mast of a junk, with a single sail made of caw. They seldom exceed 80 tons burden; are constructed without iron or nails; and are unfit for rough weather."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 80 Oct 12, 2008