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The name is a play on words: “En vara” means on a stick, and “asado” means roasted.

On the assumption that the Spanish vara equaled a yard, and that an average city block measures 300 feet on a side, the village of Chischa would have covered eight city blocks.

Between the points there are 4 varas of water, which drops to 2.

In a short time the people were instructed in material arts, constructing tribunals, churches, convents, schools, and houses, all of stone walls, one vara thick, to resist typhoons.

Come here,—ye canna do too much honor to a young leddy who has such a vara profound esteem for hersel'!