"Periagua" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and tar, to caulk and pay her seams, and the like. At length, one of the company proposed that, instead of building a bark or sloop, or shallop, or whatever they would call it, which they found was so difficult, they would rather make a large periagua, or canoe, which might be done with ...
— The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • Daniel Defoe |
