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"'We will find ruins here or make 'em, says High. 'The Government doesn't care which we do. An appropriation is an appropriation. "Boca de Coacoyula was a dead town. Them biblical towns we read about Tired and Siphon after they was destroyed, they must have looked like Forty-second Street and Broadway compared to this Boca place.
And a gale pounded us all down the Caribbean, and nearly wrecked us on the Yucatan coast opposite a little town without a harbor called Boca de Coacoyula. Suppose the ship had run against that name in the dark! "'Better fifty years of Europe than a cyclone in the bay, says High Jack Snakefeeder. So we get the captain to send us ashore in a dory when the squall seemed to cease from squalling.