Crossword-Solution: ISABELS 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

CONTENTS PART FIRST THE SILVER OF THE MINE PART SECOND THE ISABELS PART THIRD THE LIGHTHOUSE NOSTROMO PART FIRST THE SILVER OF THE MINE CHAPTER ONE In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

The shores on the gulf are steep-to all round; three uninhabited islets basking in the sunshine just outside the cloud veil, and opposite the entrance to the harbour of Sulaco, bear the name of “The Isabels.” There is the Great Isabel; the Little Isabel, which is round; and Hermosa, which is the smallest.

Year after year the black hulls of their ships had gone up and down the coast, in and out, past Azuera, past the Isabels, past Punta Mala--disregarding everything but the tyranny of time.

That evening he had walked up straight to Charles Gould and had hissed out to him that he would have liked to deport the Grand Vicar out of Sulaco, anywhere, to some desert island, to the Isabels, for instance.

Nostromo interrupted his reflections upon the way men’s qualities are made use of, without any fundamental knowledge of their nature, by the proposal they should slip the long oars out and sweep the lighter in the direction of the Isabels.