Vendavel

Once clear of Manila bay, the Nuestra Señora de Guia picked up the vendavels, or winds. Sailing up the western coast of Luzon, she rounded the rocky headland of Bojeador, sheeted home all her great sails and bowled away ...

[…] Daily the sun like a red target sank into horizons left behind them, the vendavel hung steady from the west ...

It is very capacious and well sheltered from the vendavels -- whether the southwest and the southeast. It has a good anchorage, with a clean and good bottom.

As we rode I wondered if the wind should be called a vendavel from Gibraltar, or maybe a libeccio from Italy, or perhaps simply it would be better, ...

And what monsters: the Vendavel, the Mistral, the Bora, the Meltemi, the Sirocco, the Levanter, often heralding their arrival with screeching like a banshee ...