Crossword-Solution: GAMO 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Even at Friar’s Oak we had heard how, in the little _Speedy_, of fourteen small guns with fifty-four men, he had carried by boarding the Spanish frigate _Gamo_ with her crew of three hundred.

Greenleaf, in a list of Indian names made in 1823,[83] gave this as "BAAM´CHE_nun´gamo_ or _Ah_P´MOOJEE`_negmook_." Thoreau[84] was informed by his Penobscot guide, that the name "means 'Lake that is crossed;' because the usual course lies across, not along it." There is another "Cross Lake," in Aroostook county, near the head of Fish River.

The _Speedy_ was a little craft, of one hundred and fifty-eight tons only, and carried fourteen pop-guns--four-pounders--with a crew of fifty-four men; while the _Gamo_ measured six hundred tons, and had thirty-two guns, with a crew of three hundred and nineteen men.

Cochrane was especially enraged, for had the _Gamo_ been purchased, we could have been transferred to her from the _Speedy_, and would have been in a position to do very much more than in that wretched little craft.

Thus, in spite of the fact that both were illegitimate and had already been adopted into other families, Nobunaga's two sons, Nobukatsu and Nobutaka, were put forward as proper candidates, the former supported by Ikeda Nobuteru and Gamo Katahide; the latter, by Shibata Katsuiye and Takigawa Kazumasu.