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The two great branches of the Orinoco, the Zacupana and the Imataca, remain separate for fourteen leagues: on going up farther, the waters of the river are found united* in a single channel extremely broad. All the channels* that terminate in the bocas chicas, rise from the same point of the trunk of the Orinoco.
The picturesque Cuban society, which King knew well, was more amusing than any other that one had yet discovered in the whole broad world, but made no profession of teaching anything unless it were Cuban Spanish or the danza; and neither on his own nor on King's account did the visitor ask any loftier study than that of the buzzards floating on the trade-wind down the valley to Dos Bocas, or the colors of sea and shore at sunrise from the height of the Gran Piedra; but, as though they were still twenty years old and revolution were as young as they, the decaying fabric, which had never been solid, fell on their heads and drew them with it into an ocean of mischief.
"Oh, some men arrived last night from Bocas del Toro and telephoned that they must see him to-day on a matter of importance." "Then he's coming later?" "I hardly think so. I was terribly disappointed, so he told me to go without him. Now, I shall have to make up to you for his absence, if I am able." "That's the sort of speech," Kirk laughed, "that doesn't leave a fellow any nice answer.
The casa and the land about it can still be hers, we only want to drain and develop the Pool, and my chief will be strictly fair with her. The old lady will be rich beyond her wildest dreams and we will have the greatest producer known since the Dos Bocas gusher went up in flames!" Willa rose. "If you find Tia Juana, Mr. Thode, don't build your hopes too high.
These Savannas of Trinidad stand, it must be remembered, in the very line where, on such a theory, they might be expected to stand, along the newest deposit; the great band of sand, gravel, and clay rubbish which stretches across the island at the mountain-foot, its highest point in thirty-six miles being only two hundred and twenty feet an elevation far less than the corresponding depression of the Bocas, which has parted Trinidad from the main Cordillera.
Early in January, I started with my host and his little suite on an expedition to the islands of the Bocas. Our chance of getting them depended on the sea being calm outside the Bocas, as well as inside. The calm inside was no proof of the calm out.
From the country around are procured the best oranges grown in the confederation, and the city is the mart for the woods from the Paraguayan, Chaco and Corrientes forests which are exported for manufacturing purposes. The elbow formed by the junction of the Parana and the Paraguay is called by the natives Las Tres Bocas, or "The Three Mouths."
He doesn't know I've been to that place. Why tell him? All I need is a clean bill of health from you. That's all HE wants. You have only to sign that paper." Marshall regarded the senator with surprise. "But I can't," he said. "You can't? Why not?" "Because it certifies to the fact that you have not visited Las Bocas. Unfortunately, you have visited Las Bocas."
But he shook his head doubtfully. "I was wondering about Las Bocas," he explained, "if your going there might not get you in trouble at the next port. With a yacht, I think it is different, but Las Bocas is under quarantine." There was a chorus of exclamations. "It's not serious," Marshall explained. "There was bubonic plague there, or something like it. You would be in no danger from that.
Cortlandt will be getting worried." "In all probability he won't know anything about it until too late to come for us. He is dining with these people from Bocas, and may not get back to the Tivoli before midnight." "Nice fix we're in!" remarked Anthony. "I'd like to lay hands on that captain." "We may have to stay here all night!" "Well, at least we have a haven of refuge.
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