Crossword-Solution: BANOS 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Back of the ancient wharfs, that dated from the days when Porto Banos was a receiver of stolen goods for buccaneers and pirates, were rows of thatched huts, streets, according to the season, of dust or mud, a few iron-barred, jail-like barracks, customhouses, municipal buildings, and the whitewashed adobe houses of the consuls.

For women and children Porto Banos was a death-trap, and before “old man Marshall” came there had been no influence to remind the enforced bachelors of other days.

When the sun sank into the swamp and the heat still turned Porto Banos into a Turkish bath, they threw dice on the greasy tables of the Café Bolivar for drinks.

They all sit round a table and listen to an old gentleman talk world politics.” If Henry Marshall brought content to the exiles of Porto Banos, there was little in return that Porto Banos could give to him.

After her wrestling-match with the hurricane, all those on board the _Serapis_ seemed to find in land, even in the swamp land of Porto Banos, a compelling attraction.