Cacafuego

As the minutes tick by and the pages keep turning, there comes a time when a Cataloger like me runs into an exquisite nugget of knowledge that must be passed on to the general public.  There really are things that people just have to know about in this world.  

Most recently, and the surely the reason behind the idea for this blog in the first place, is a small mention of a ship captured by Sir Francis Drake.  I am sure that Sir Francis Drake captured many ships in his day, but this particular ship had a most unusual name.  Now, knowing the small amount of Spanish that I have accumulated over the years, I was quite baffled at the name of this ship.  Whatever overcame the Spanish sea-faring geniuses that allowed them to name a ship Cacafuego?  To keep these posts PG rated, I will refrain from translating for you, but feel free to type it into google translate or another program.  Be sure to put a space between caca and fuego.  Apparently this was a huge find for Drake, as the ship was piled high with pearls, precious stones, gold and much silver.

In absolute awe, and not quite believing this could be true, I looked up Cacafuego in Wikipedia, and sure enough, it was a Spanish ship captured by Sir Francis Drake.  There does seem to be a bit of controversy about the spelling of the name which you might find quite fascinating.

In other news, we are currently in the middle of trying to locate a personal entry into our department's dictionary.  We tend to add words, in pencil, to our dictionary that we happen to make up.  This time, however, we have forgotten one of the words and are unable to locate it.  We think it had something to do with hopping or grasshoppers.  So far we have searched the F's and the J's but to no avail.  I will keep you posted.

The Cataloger a.k.a. The Silent One a.k.a. The One in the Cubicle.