It was safe, therefore, or at least involved less risk of missing the enemy, to send the Flying Squadron to Cienfuegos, either heading him off there, or with a chance of meeting him in the yucatan Channel, if he tried to reach Havana by going west of Cuba.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
The reader of my "Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and yucatan," may remember that the researches of Mr. Catherwood and myself in the last-mentioned country were abruptly terminated by the illness of the former.
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I."
John L. Stephens
But there was no one to answer, for the man from the forests of yucatan had vanished.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer