Crossword-Solution: CAMPECHE 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The principal woods exported are mahogany, guayacan, known to commerce as lignum vitae (one of the hardest woods and so heavy that when in loading the steamer a log drops into the sea it sinks to the bottom like iron), bera or bastard lignum vitae, espinillo or yellowwood, campeche or logwood (a famous dyeing material), sparwood and cedar.

When we had been some forty-eight or fifty hours at sea, we found ourselves off the Campeche banks, in quieter water.

The ridge, along which we were coursing, is the single elevation in the peninsula; beginning in northeastern Yucatan, it runs diagonally toward the southwest, ending near Campeche.

Writing about 1580, when the traditions of descent were fresh, he draws a distinction between the _lengua de Maya_ and the _lengua de Campeche_.[12-2] The latter was a dialect varying very slightly from pure Maya, and I take it, this manner of indicating the distinction points to a former political separation.

The example given is:-- "ICHECH; tu eres, en lengua de Campeche; _ichex_, vosotros seis; _in en_, yo soy; _in on_, nosotros somos.