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Caique
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[1] a small single-masted levantine sailing vessel with a sprit mainsail and square topsail. [2] a turkish 10–12 oared skiff used on the golden horn of istanbul.
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Cakes and wine, английский
Usn slang for the bread and water served to prisoners under punishment.
Caddie of cadboro bay, английский
The existence of a sea serpent in the waters off south vancouver island is recorded by the salish indians, in folk tales which speak of t’chain-ko, a strange but friendly aquatic creature. the first reports, made by white settlers in the 1920s, have been followed by some 200 reported sightings up to the present day. as well as individual sightings, the creature has been seen by groups of up to 30 people. once called the sea hag, it is now popularly known as caddie. described as being the size of a whale, it is said to be long and thin, with a slender neck, supporting a horse- or camel-like head topped by a jagged mane-like crest, well-defined nostrils, no visible ears, a lengthy beard and whiskers, long sharp fangs, a snakelike tongue, and huge bulbous black eyes, glowing with reddish-green luminosity. eyewitnesses have called the beast’s visage everything from loveable to horrifying. they include such reputable persons as major w. h. langley, a wellknown barrister and amateur marine biologist; f. w. kemp, an official of the provincial archives; j. t. brown, chief justice of saskatchewan; and captain paul sowerby of west vancouver. on another occasion, fisherman david webb reported in some detail: i was fishing out of cadboro bay in 1941 ... and a southeast gale started blowing so i decided it was time to go into the harbour.... suddenly, near where i moored my boat, i saw a strange animal come up out of the water a thing with about a five or six foot neck on it. it had a head something like a camel.... judging by the length of the neck, i imagined it to be another 20 feet or so in the water, but i couldn’t see below the surface.... i have seen sea lions, basking sharks, whales, but i have never seen anything like this in my life. other sightings of a smaller but similar creature without whiskers or mane are believed to have been of the creature’s mate, dubbed amy. in 1968, captain bill hagelund claimed to have captured a 40 cm (16 inch) infant of the same species. he planned to take the creature to the pacific biological station, but released it when he feared its frantic struggles would result in death. in 1992, after extensive study, marine scientists paul leblond of the university of british columbia and e.l. bousfield of the royal british columbia museum notified the american society of zoologists of the probable existence of a surviving marine dinosaur, which they baptized with the scientific name cadborosaurus willsi, category cryptid—cadboro, after the bay; saurus, meaning lizard-like; willsi, after archie wills the newspaper editor who first drew world attention to the creature; and cryptid, meaning species for which there is no confirmation— see cryptozoology.
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