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Spanish propaganda magazines

ABC, November 15 1936

Garay, ABC, April 14 1937

Ontañón, ABC, November 11 1936

[ltwilliammowett]

The Garay

A garay was originally an oared boat used by the natives of the Philippines before being used by the pirates who settled there in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Garay was fast and had a flat hull to operate in shallow waters. In appearance, the garay resembles the Swedish galleys of the archipelago fleet or a small war galley of the Mediterranean. In the end, it is nothing else. A garay was a slave-rowed narrow boat made of wood, bamboo, rattan and nipa, she was about 20 metres long with a bamboo main mast carrying a square sail that was hoisted slightly offset. She could also had a foremast and sometimes a mizzen mast, rigged with smaller triangular crab claw sails.

Garay sketches by Rafael Monleón y Torres  (1890) (x)

Depending on size, a Garay had a crew of 30-80 men. It was led by a nakura or nakuda (commander), who in turn was led by a squadron leader, the panglima. The julmuri (first mate) is responsible for the crew and also controls the helm (bausan). Another mate, the julbato, stays at the bow of the ship and keeps a lookout for reefs and enemy ships. The julbato is also responsible for the anchor (sao).

Garay anchored in Sulu, from: The Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zélée by Jules Dumont d'Urville (1846)

The armament was mostly one cannon and relied mainly on boarding the enemy quickly to defeat them with the small arms of the crew. So it was similar to what the pirates of the Mediterranean did.

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[not-so-grown-up-kid]

Poison

Intricately obliterating the power you behold, intensely offering that poison you hold. Once a sip of exhilirating bliss, now a poisonous kiss. Addicting and secretly intoxicating. A dose of you, once, so sweet. Intoxicating, addicting, obliterating, mind confusing, and controlling. You have poisoned me, the toxic drug I willingly took, altered my senses, you overtook.

-J.G.-

[nemhiszlekelvilag]

Osszátok, hagy terjedjen. 

Akarom az úrhölgy örömét! 

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Ezequiel Garay with his wife Tamara , Shaila and Antonio Pic: Tamara Gorro

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