Haciendas Sentence Examples

The Macaris, like the ancient Mayan cities and abandoned sisal haciendas, seemed forever lost.

Since on an average 70% by measurement of the normal defecated cane juice has to be evaporated in order to reduce it to syrup ready for final concentration and crystallization in the vacuum pan, and since to attain the same end as much as 90 to 95% of the volume of mixed juices has to be evaporated when maceration or imbibition is employed, it is clear that some more economical mode of evaporation is necessary in large estates than the open-fire batteries still common in Barbados and some of the West Indian islands, and in small haciendas in Central America and Brazil, but seldom seen elsewhere.

Yucatan's jungle had devoured that story, just as it had the cities of the Maya and the great haciendas.