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

Instead of steering for Carthagena, or one of the larger places, we put into a small harbour, called Sapote, some miles away from the chief town.

Stephens found a beam of sapote wood used as a lintel, which was covered with very elegantly carved decorations.

Their names are to be seen to-day rudely carved on the _sapote_ beams that form the lintels of the doorways of the antique shrine whose ruins crown the southernmost point of the island.

From time to time she looked at him, he caught a glimpse of eyes, blue, grey or green, oblique and disturbing; she said nothing and ate in infinitesimal amounts the frozen concoction of sapote before her.

Along the base, or rather about twenty feet up the mound, and probably once reached by a staircase, now ruined, is a range of curious apartments, nearly choked up with rubbish, and with the sapote beams still in their places over the door.