We were then permitted to take out enough plates for immediate use, leaving the balance in Progreso until we should be ready for our return journey.
We found, however, that there was no certainty in regard to a boat for Coatzacoalcos, while the Benito Juarez was about to sail for Progreso the next day.
Leaving my companions I went the following morning to Progreso to attend to the unlucky baggage.
The American consul at Progreso is too much interested in archaeology to be found at his office, but his Mexican vice-consul was present.
Fortunately, there are two railroads from Progresoto Mérida, and we were able to take an afternoon train over the narrow-gauge line for the capital city.
For comfort, for the benefit of our sick man, for the advantage of our pocket, we would be better off at Progreso than in Mérida.
Progreso is cleaner, cooler, enjoys a sea breeze, and gives as good living for less than half the price we were paying.
Progreso and Mérida were visited, and our work was done upon the Mayas living near the town of Tekax.
We were now but waiting for notice of a vessel sailing from Progreso for Coatzacoalcos.
We found the carnival at Progreso more natural and unpretentious, but also far more lively and amusing, than anything in Mérida.
Landing at Progreso on Christmas Eve I went on by rail, for a distance of about twenty-five miles, through a flat and uninteresting country to the city of Merida, and at once commenced preparations for the journey to Chichén.
Nature has been niggard of soil to the whole peninsula, but perhaps it is around Progreso that you realise most that the Yucatecan must be content to sow his seed in the "stony ground.
Occasionally they fish or take a job as one of the hands of the small trading schooners which ply from Progreso to Cozumel; but life is cheap, and they do as little honest work as they reasonably can.
Mayans are to alter the first favourable impressions of that Progreso crowd.
Owing to the shallow water at Progreso and the cost of dredging on coral-beds, he has had to go to the expense of having his boats built specially for the traffic.
That the Progreso birds were actually beginning a trans-Gulf flight seems inevitable.
This probability must be considered when comparisons are made between Progresodensities and those at Tampico.
No other single piece of evidence so conclusively demonstrates that birds cross the Gulf of Mexico in spring in considerable numbers as do flight density data recorded from Progreso in 1948.
The observation station at Progresowas situated on the northern end of the new wharf which projects northward from the beach to a point one mile over the Gulf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "progreso" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
