yqueque

Updated: May 17, 2025

Now we found the words of Captain Sharp to bear a true prophecy, being all very sensible that we had had a day too hot for us, after that cruel heat in killing and murdering in cold blood the old Mestizo Indian whom we had taken prisoner at Yqueque."

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

On that day they landed at Yqueque, a mud-flat, or guano island, off a line of yellow sand-hills. They found a few Indian huts there, with scaffolds for the drying of fish, and many split and rotting mackerel waiting to be carried inland. There was a dirty stone chapel in the place, "stuck full of hides and sealskins."

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.