Crossword-Solution: LANTANAS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The chief plants in flower will be _Lantanas_, _Campanula pyramidalis_, _Zonal Pelargoniums_," and about twenty more.

Her captain--Antonio Lantanas by name--is a sailor of the Spanish-American type; and being this, he takes crosses and disappointments coolly.

These creatures are male and female, both full of fun in their uncouth fashion; and Captain Lantanas takes it out of them by occasionally touching their snouts with the lit end of his cigarette, laughing to see them scamper off, scared at the (to them) singular, and somewhat painful, effect of fire.

Although a stranger to the port of San Francisco, Captain Lantanas has some knowledge of his correspondent; for Don Tomas has the day before informed him that a gentleman from whom he may expect to hear--the same whose name is signed to the letter--is a man of immense wealth; a landed proprietor, whose acres lie contiguous to the rising city of San Francisco, and for this reason enormously increased in value by the influx of gold-seeking immigrants.

What this important personage may want with him, Lantanas cannot tell; for Silvestre himself has not been made aware of it--the gentleman declining to state his business to any other than the captain of the ship.