Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-08-12

ne Tree that - pronounced the most beauti-
full is the margo tree. II grows to an i'm
mense size, from twenty to fifty feet in cir
cumfereuce, and from seventy-fve to 100
feet in height. II is an immense umbrella
shaped tree, with featherly-l like foliage. One
tree will bear 5000 margoes. The fruit is
heart or kidney shaped, and grows to the
weigh OF one or two pounds each. 1t has
skin like . plum and its flavor is that Of
all our best fruit combined-the plum,
peach and grape and something of the apple.
1t is delicious frui, and is universally used
as part Of food. The cacao tree, from
which cocoa and chocolate are made, grows
everywhere, and the fruit, which is shaped
like musk-melon, grows right out of the
body Of the tree. There is no stem to it at
all. The samsop grows in the same way,
and has very delicious fruit. The cassara
is substitute for bread. The yam grows
everywhere. II grows solid and is very
different from that Of this country. /, is
more like root. The roo. is fifteen or
twenty feet long. They break it up into
pieces and sell 1t in sections. The cocoa
nut palm abounds everywhere. One tree
drops nut every day in the year. 1t drops
1868 year. The banana produces bunch
a month every month in the year. |, is
perpetual in its growth. All they have got
TO dc to cultivate il is to chop the brush and
stick in the plant, and it needs no cultiva-
ton. |, is the same with all their fruits.
The sugar cane grows from twenty to twen-
,y-fve feet high. l was told that BY the
officials, and it produces 5000 to 10000
pounds to the acre. Ii never needs replacing.
but grows jus, like clover. Cotton grows
m ho I. l.
comes a perfect tree and bears a great
amount Of very fine fiber. Corn produces
five crops year. Coffee grows sbundan,ly.
and Nicaragua coffee is among the best in
the world. No finer coffee is provided any
where. Tha, country is pre-eminently
COUNTRY OF LAZY PEOPLE.
one can live there nearly without work
as anywhere else. The people are very in
dependen, in spirit and work only when they
feel like it One strange thing is ths, the
English language seems TO be the coming
language Of all America. Spanish and
English are spoken, but the whole business
Of the place is principally done in English.
The people are honest and truthful Twas
told by Captain J. c. Sargent, of Maine.
who is the United States Consul there, Of an
Indian who found purse containing 5000.
and spent the whole day looking through
the streets for the man who lost it. Unfor-
,unstely they are becoming a little con-
taminated by the people from the United
States. They are being a little bi, contami-
mated by our high civilization. The Amer
ican politicians who have got going down
there are damaging the character Of the peo-
pie very much. They are the most univer-
sally polite people that ever saw. Every
body salutes you, even the little negro boys,
and If they have not got hat they will pull
At their hair. Ii is very amusing to hear
them say good morning. The, have whin-
ing manner Of drawing it out Coed
morning. sab. One morning We were
walking down by the beach, when little
creole Who was with Us. the ward of Mr..
Edward James. formerly Of New York. spied
four little negroes. All the clothing they
had on was little shirts. They we're down
gathering crabs, and were making baskets
Of their shirt-tai!s. One little boy went TO
see what they were doing, and as they saw
him approaching them they cfouched down
so as 10 make VI rs much possible fer
their scantlness of dress. When be came
back from satisfying his curiosity, be said in
his broken English. This IS the mos, po.
lites, people ever saw" 1t aas very fun
ny. The houses Of the common people
seem very nice at Bluefeids and at Pearl
Cay. At this place they had very nice
houses generally ,hatched with bamboo
cane and eocoa-nut palm leaves. All their
costumes are Of the very ,hinnes, and light
est materials. Even the ladies are accus-
toned TO array themselves in native sim
pliei,y. The waists are below the Rose
Cleveland line somewhat, and they wear
short skirts. Physically they are VERY
fine race-indeed. the fines, race being the
Indians. Some of
THEIR WOMEN
are superb in figure and handsome in feat
ures. In the towns the population consists
Of negroes, Indians and every cross between
these two and Spanish and English that
they have got in from the United States.
They are all making money. There is not
! one there who is not making money. rhe
fruit trade, which Is just beginning, is des-
tined 10 become Of immense importance.
The climate Is Of course warm. They have
no winter, but you never really suffer from
the heat. May and September are their
worst monihs. | was down there in Nav
and all the time wore the same clothe.
have on now, except that did not wear
flannel underclo,hes. wore linen under
clothes, but with that exception | made no
difference between there and here in nv
clothing The day from 10 o'clock until
Is usually hot, and not much work is done
during those hours, but people do i, who
have TO. Up 10 10 o'clock the temperature
is delightful, and a, o'clock breeze rises
every day. AT nigh, you always sleep un-
der blankets. You never think of sleeping
without a blanket. While was there
| only saw two mosquitoes, and gnats
are unknown. They have no troublesome
insects, but sometimes they have an invasion
Of fees, brought in from other regions Of
the country. Along the coast the country
/ is low and swampy, but as YOU go back ii
becomes rolling and rises into hills The
white people like the country and climate.
| The family of Captain Sargent, of Maine,
| told me they had become very much at
tscEed TO the country, and they were de-
| lighted with the climate. Captain Sargent
is very popular. He is not like the majority
Of the men whom this Government sends
out to get rid Of them. There is no region
in this world which offers better inducements
for enterprise and capital. There are no
epidemic diseases there such as yellow fever.
They are a long lived and healthy race that
live there. They are glad to have people Of
the United States go in there. They have
great respect for US as a nation. That is
because they live at such a distance from US.
The people are ready to encourage every
enterprise that may be started. For frul,
the country is unsurpassed, and in the
mountain regions the mineral wealth is very
great. | expect to go back there before
long myself.-Chicago Erening Journal.