The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-11-26

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..r- NICARAGUA, Oct. 18th.
Ars. the Mosquito coast, or
t4 t+Su.tia, as it is now known
p Aoericans, occupies only a
....t HAT ancient Indian king
.4.I, .lScovererS dubbed Moscos,
@ nasquitos. The insignificant
'' a.1. strip, which for two cen
g" .ur,1ed SO much of the world
W. hes along the Nicaraguan
. apc Gracias Dios south
' Il. Huetjelds lagoon, distance
Al, tbe crow flies. OF course
,aa her customary dexterity
acr boundaries, claimed a
uta for it in the days of the
tis hard to tell just why
majesty, whose proud
...- lt pom her vast possessions
.. sets, should have shown
u this comparatively
-rlf America than Ameri-
The first view of Mosqui-
Inspiring. The monot-
5ast. broken by lagoons
...... dangerous reefs and Gays,
u5us' description OF lHd
-t very low land The
Keys, like the "atolls'' of
..... .. ueIe sand banks, elevated
tle water, each support
.-..1y palms and bushes and
M uuiads of seabirds and
.. headed among them all
treat Corn, Little Corn
....l Upon that cruel reef,
e bones of our good ship
bleaching in the sun; and
~s9ltor Warner Miller and
wrecked few years ago
Town 10 inspect the begin
Faaragua canal. Its name
ming THE Snorer is as
appearance, for this hidden
.4.. .Iv wide awake to destroy all
.s- M enture too near. Nothing
Innocent looking than the
T.
a.- he water, perhaps three
o.-0 ..oi4e long by 800 yards wide,
... distorted shrubs and tenn
~ Io trees growing at one end
famous for the great num-
which come here to lay their
0g the turtle season many
.l- come over from Old
.. W he mainland. These So
u-n erect rude huts among the
.-ng bits of stranded vessels
.|. sam with which the beach
H. lave literally to anchor
habitations to the trees
withes to prevent them;
WI away by fierce Carib-
natives do not kill the
,o cNteIminate them and
urce of profit; but they
live. by a process 50 bar
lakes one S flesh creep to
When the turtles are com
apusit their eggs the men
.. s in the bushes, rush out
.. with iron hooks turn the
tmes over on their backs,
helpless and sprawling.
4ptor pleasure. One by
firmly fastened to the
back covered with dry
which is then set on fire.
rAe plates of the valuable
..- ut the joints; and then a
Inserted horizontally be-
the lamnia lifted from
eeing taken not to iniure
much heat, nor to force
heat has fully prepared it
lon. A large turtle affords
uds of shell, the pilates, "
eiring quarter of an inch
Many turtles die under
cation, but instances are
they have been caught a
with the outer coating re-
b rare cases men have lived
% alped. What the turtles
east consideration of their
had the poor creatures the
'' king they would make the
5a ring with cries of agony
-A ny philanthropic sisters, who
>e shell combs and criticise
'.. lrcls in their bonnets.
.tr down to Mosquitia' S capital
'"He Ne village of Gracias, on the
II 1d which Columbus named
."s a Dias-''Cape Thanks to
u the vessel, anchored some
we were rowed in a pit-pan
er miles up the river which
7 gdiug line between Nicara-
ndaras and is variously called
i.' 'c" Wanks, Waux, or Segovia
i' ross wide, wind swept la
u NA whose southern bank stands
rhaps the best that can be
mat to no town in the world
'a' To say adieu Most of its 10 or
''4e 42Uses are built in what they
47.Hnan Style down here-barn-
"'.a4 structures with roofs of cor
f painted red; the rest in the
'' mosque native fashion with cane