Vocabulary

abarrotado - glutted, cram full
acorazado - iron-clad
ajo - garlic
alerta - on the alert, on the look out
brisa - breeze
cebollas - onions
conducta - conduct, behaviour
contrabando - contraband
cosecha - harvest, harvest-time, crop
dar en el clavo - to hit it
dátiles - dates
encogido - shrivelled, shrunk
fruta - fruit
granadas - pomegranates
guardias aduaneras - custom house officials
higos - figs
inmaturo - unripe
limones - lemons
llevar - to carry, to wear
matute - smuggling
mirar - to look
moscatel - muscatel grapes
naranja - orange
¡ojo! - attention!
olvidar - to forget
pasas de Corinto - currants
podrido - rotten
por decirlo así - so to say, as it were
querer decir - to mean
recobrar - to recover
reprensible - objectionable
resumir - to recapitulate, to state briefly
sinnúmero - a large number, innumerable
travesía - journey by sea