The Republican journal., 1896-09-03
SDarish Honduras.
epmpses Of TruxiIIo. Omoa Puerto Ca
RS''" central American Railway.

r, second in size of the five Cen
...,..ff.tn Republics seems to be the
-1ck0ud and undevoloped-not-
.u.iuE the vigorous blooming
..- tej4ed a few years ago in the
-Hes Triangular i'll shape, it's
......4ra miles of eXuberant tropical
.4.a extends from ocean to ocean,
.....,i IAtemala and san Salvador on
invest and Nicaragua on the
... With 400 miles of coastline
..-e. aribbean sea, it has barely so
... tHe Pacific side, where Fonseca
fines tue point of its triangle, and
dives -utrance to San Salvador and
.....4 Along the whole stretch of
.,r0tlu shore there are only three
equence-Puerto Caballos,
mrruiy called Port Cortez), Omoa
4Uo When Cortez explored
, his ships lay sometimes in
Which now bears his name.
~ Puerto Caballos, (Horse
... use a number of his horses
I'd were dropped into the bay.
ArU the surroundings the
.. Barbor where the largest ocean
.... ind safe anchorage, sheltered
ne Wind by the mountains be
-u stands in front-he deter
..... ike it the port of entry for the
- lt was attempting to found,
.-iU sued a settlement on the edge
h. Inch he named Nativabad.
.eqas it remained the chief port
. until the buccaneers be-
1 many and powerful-when it
.. few miles westward, to
Hnt which could be better for
a. lose days, when the Spaniard
This realm, Honduras paid
.--.r "a the mother Countrywide
o.- COMMON as any of the baser
Iich was the country that
r massive fortresses on the
.- -et n which to store the royal
lle King fifth, which was
.-s. ION Honduras of all the bull
j. .+..al was mighty sum, and the
.u 0moa still shows the great
a. tie gold bricks were piled.
sgd ELY a romantic legend, but
,U-. f.. that three centuries ago the
.tr5 III honduras shod their horses
r. sloes--tor the simple reason
Hds much less plentiful, and
.. ult 10 work, than the yellow
# ...t ley looked out carefully for
g.. l might be shed, and perhaps
one now then gave rise to
of the lucky horse shoe. y"
H.. acr palaces and cathedrals and
. Nobility and fitted out expe-
tw conquests with the wealth
aut possessions; and when
ed in driving her from the
To the crown was inestima-
lettering Spain. Her worst
feel pity for the proud and
... touutry which once ruled all
g.. ..pWn OF the western world
1i. avs of poverty and distress.
rason unknown to the laity,
easter upon which we took
.. Belize. sailed direct to
sH taIthtrest port on this side
Is onduras, where she remained
, of day, taking on a car
and copper ore. and then
0n her course to Puerto
HtAillo, on the western shore
bay formed by long, mar
tongue Of land, known as
., is the outlet of the rich
nent of Olancho. In for
Ii MIS- place of consequence,
as we'll as commercial
not only on account of gold
righbOrhood, but carrying
trade with the metropO-
lectures of which were ex-
l@ products of the country.
81. ogany and other precious
10, cochineal, hides and tai
Is fort, mounted with rusty
'- tie ruins of extensive bar
' tlier situation could not be
CLOSED between tall, green
."ta and embosomed in the most
location of the tropics; but
.eiueSs and isolation of it
Island could not have felt
l'Ar} and abandoned by his kind
D'- "''. ID white man if compelled to
+" aong the few hundred Caribs
a. .ali- breeds that populate the
'.. .e llage lies along the edge of
''' N.' '' The foot of a mountain which
with greenest verdure from
S''' NNu and close behind lie Other
.''' AH uoYe tier to the horizon. The
l'"'i'" aet, lined with sombre, de-
."'7' Losses, has melancholy air OF
WRIT ""s- gentility, and the well shod
'-g. oelo ont Of place as his foot
ar pom the broken, grass grown
"s where the natives shuttle along
"ta bare feet. 1t looks as il
forest We're about to obliter-
remains, for scarcely any oper
Visible, except here and there {