What is "guanche"

Usage examples of "guanche".

The original inhabitants, called Guanche, were tall, fair, Stone Age people, but socially well-organized in spite of their primitive status.

First he had to find it, then work round the seaward end, but at the same time he dare not risk missing the entrance to the river, the Rio Guanche, because they would then blunder into a shallow bay and two islands which were only a mile or so beyond and came immediately before Punta Cocal, the western entrance to Portobelo.

The mouth of the Rio Guanche was a good deal wider than he had expected.

Ned and Secco had estimated it would take at most five hours, so to ensure arriving at Portobelo at dawn, the buccaneers left the Rio Guanche just before midnight.

The selected boats from the Rio Guanche would soon be rounding the western headland of Portobelo.

With the fleet outside of Portobelo, the buccaneers and the bullion inside and the Iron Fort in between, there was stalemate, unless they were prepared to carry the bullion over the track back to the Rio Guanche, and meet the fleet there, using the boats that had remained.

The wind had not only turned light once they were abreast of the Rio Guanche, but it was puffing round in circles like a child blowing a dandelion.

Defeated, they could be making their way back over the mountains to the Rio Guanche, to rejoin the boats.

In which case she should be leading the fleet to the mouth of the Guanche to pick them up.

Jensen walked from boat to boat along the south bank of the Rio Guanche, checking in the darkness that the men at the oars were ready.

I suppose the strangest thing of all for an island people is the fact that the Guanches had no boats.

America I entertain a hypothesis still more bold, namely, that they are nearly related to the Guanches in the Canary Islands, and to the Atlantic populations of Africa, the Moors, Tuaricks, Copts, etc.

That the Guanches of the Canary Islands, supposed to be a remnant of the Atlantean population, preserved their dead as mummies.