The Republican journal., 1896-09-17
Conayagua.
..,,detia La Nueva"-the Ancient Capt.
1. lima, and once Its Greatest City.

...-..nudence of The journal. |
...A. HuNDURAs, Aug. LIST. 1t
.s..ae. u rambling about this
.r~lken town, that it was a
Ishing city hundred years
.- entered the Bay of New
.-.s 1f wealth and education
nIted States was howl
..,~ and that the names OF Co
-.. Cottez, Cristoval de Old,
.-.. ANarado are intimately con-
- lis early history. 1t will be
..... nat Honduras was the first
-. Nlrth American main land
.anbus and his companions
... rppk possession of it in be-
spanish Crown. Columbus
.I ID Cabo Gracias a Dios,
s, I'D God, its Rio del Diastre,
-n.0leck,) Rio Tinto, Unk
uY other points, from Incl
l-e. They called the coun-
ua IFS is So set down on all
.- the name being changed
O. "a comparatively recent
lately after the conquest Of
oio CurteZ, inspired by ac-
A and populous kingdom
..- rl the southwark, under
uion. History says this
WITH ior its length and the
autered and overcome,
.scf unprecedented and un-
10 The annals of martial adj
tIl4 from the Isthmus of
..... ortez boldly entered the
-nwn wilderness, swarming
u,ianS, that interviewed be-
.tus Of Mexico and the vague
5, Hugueras. For two long
rl3st superhuman courage
I--r. Ae struggled among tropi-
.rd deep morasses, broad
l-l mountains, wild beasts
. wages, until at last the point
-.... alefe Columbus had made his
the port of TruXillo. Here
hA submission of the neigh
and founded the coast city,
mains. Then it was neces-
lisb an inland Capital for
-.u tIovince of Hugueras. To
Spatched Lieutenant Alonzo
thousand men and in
,eiect a suitable site mid
.. lie oceans. Caceres must
3d. n engineer of remarkable abil-
u- lis day and generation,
... his orders so exactly that if
was drawn across Hondu-
Atlantic to the Pacific, its
lo ust two miles north of
le middle Of Comayagua.
-Iueer could do better than
Us all lie appliances which
LAID not yet been invent
finer situation be found
world. Built along the
Imuya, in mountain
walled On three sides 10y a
AXIS OF from ZOO to TO-
slopes away to the east
plain Of Sula both
.-e are all that could be
age temperature is -
with little variation from
The soll is deep rich and
he the products of the val
ia the foothills just be
oI upon the lower slopes
-4> corn, wheat and other
upetate zone can he rails
Quantities, with little
- and wheat fields wave
aae another, and orange
Iu- orchards are close
ane time the valley was
eJ and Comayagua itself
lbitAnts; but at present
one-tifth of that number.
y name of the city is pro-
Ueued 10 my ah-gwa, ac-
syllable; but when and
more euphonious title OF
..UJ ] am unable to tell
en must have been worth
a.uA IN two ago. Its great,
+ faced by an enormous
a IS by far the finest build
daJIy "a really magnificent
now somewhat down at
4i moresque style of archi-
mar in New Spain at the
my, early in the 10th cen
-aa was made a Bishop S
its great University was
cars later. The latter has
-l.l restored'' at least half
Hlt at present does not prac-
except in much defaced,
here is also an ecclesiasti-
f.' large and richly endowed
' "r three converts, several
aAes, and ruins of many pre-
.~'~. Nova days the place is
o.aate enough-the dilapidated
time palaces, fountains and
"-ll4- to its melancholy air of
Inhabited houses are mostly
v sun dried bricks, white
sH-7 and with grated windows.