Crossword-Solution: BALSAS 6 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Upon these boats, frail as they seemed, such as further south were called balsas, they made considerable journeys to distant islands where they caught vast quantities of fish, some of which they used to manure their land.

Moreover, besides the oars, they rigged a square cotton sail upon the balsas which enabled them to run before the wind without labour, steering the craft by means of a paddle at the stern.

While we were there I observed that on the springing up of a wind from the north, although it was of no great strength, the _balsas_ all came to shore and were drawn up out of reach of the waves.

Also, after all Urco and some of his captains, breaking out of the burning temple under cover of the smoke escaped, either in _balsas_ or, as many declare, by swimming the lake.

For more than a century and a half the placid waters of San Diego bay had lain undisturbed by any craft more formidable than the tule rafts (balsas de enea) of the natives, when on the 11th of April, 1769, a silent ship slowly entered the bay and dropped her anchor not far from the point where now the ferry boat for Coronado leaves the slip.