I recalled a dozen stories of the doings of the buccaneers, not to speak of the famous acapulco ship taken by Anson a little before the year in which the Boca del Dragon was fishing in those waters; and I feasted my fancy with all sorts of sparkling dreams of gold and silver and precious stones, of the costly ecclesiastical furniture of New Spain, of which methought I found a hint in that silver crucifix in the cabin, of rings, sword-hilts, watches, buckles, snuff-boxes, and the like.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Once there, one of those coasting schooners will bring me down to acapulco, where the ship will put in.
"On the Frontier"
Bret Harte
That was our arrangement, but if anything happened to prevent him, he was to join me in acapulco.
"On the Frontier"
Bret Harte