hamaca

• They lay each of them in a cotton hamaca, which we call Brazil beds, and two women attending them with six cups, and a little ladle to fill them out of an earthen pitcher of wine; and so they drank each of them three of those cups at a time one to the other, and in this sort they drink drunk at their feasts and meetings That cacique that was a stranger had his wife staying at the port where we anchored, and in all my life I have seldom seen a better favoured woman. —  The Discovery of Guiana
• "What is it?" he adds, raising his head over the edge of his _hamaca_. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
• They lay each of them in a cotton hamaca, which we call —  The Discovery of Guiana
• Perhaps it is atavistic -- this desire to rest and swing in a hamaca. —  Edge of the Jungle
• Special, unexpected, and interesting minor dangers are also the province of the hamaca. —  Edge of the Jungle

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