Word: vigo
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...Islands of the Kings (Guam) . . . we found a Gallegan whose name was Gonzalo of Vigo who said he had been left in those lands for seven years. . . . He stayed with the midnight watch and showed the pilot the course . . . was seen no more. Because of this some of the seamen grew afraid and said a ghost of one of Magellan's sailors had come aboard...
...coastline to Malaga. British ships will patrol from Malaga through the Strait of Gibraltar to the beginning of the Portuguese coastline. Over the Spanish-Portuguese land frontier 130 "international observers" will keep watch. French and British ships jointly will pick up the blockade on the northwest Spanish seas at Vigo where the Spanish coastline begins again, will patrol the Bay of Biscay around to the French frontier. France has already closed its Spanish land frontier, has posted gendarmes and military police along the French side of the Pyrenees. Spain will thus be completely ringed in like a disease area...
...gash at the waterline below the bridge. Speedily, Captain Grieg issued an SOS, ordered his 520 passengers & some crew members into the lifeboats, whence they were soon picked up by the Orion and the Viceroy of India, carried on toward England. The Doric and the Formigny limped to Vigo and Lisbon for repairs...
...Ring was broken. The Boss fled to Spain, a fugitive from justice. He was arrested in Vigo on the charge of "kidnapping two American children." This curious charge was explained by the fact that he was identified by a Spanish policeman from an old Nast cartoon that showed the Boss as a Tammany policeman collaring two small ragamuffins, labeled "Lesser Thieves." The Boss died in New York's Ludlow Street jail. In his luggage was every Nast cartoon ever drawn...