The cap'en had his wife aboard, a little timid Mexican woman he'd picked up at mazatlan.
"On the Frontier"
Bret Harte
But it worked, and I got her off, and wot's more I got her shipped to mazatlan, where she'll join Marion, and the two are goin' back to Virginy, where I guess they won't trouble Californy again.
"Sally Dows and Other Stories"
Bret Harte
We 'ave set in our time, me and 'Ope, on the bottom of a capsized schooner, ore laden out of mazatlan, with our tongues 'anging out like the tails of some vallyble new kind of a black dorg.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne