Nicaragua: Past, Present and Future: A Description of Its Inhabitants, Customs, Mines, Minerals, Early History, Modern Filibusterism, Proposed Inter-oceanic Canal and Manifest DestinyJ.E. Potter, 1859 - 372 strani |
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... feet deep , and about ninety - one miles long , margined by heavy underbrush and fine timber ; while the bank on either side is so heavily screened with trailing vines , that at various places it is impenetrable to the eye . I have seen ...
... feet deep , and about ninety - one miles long , margined by heavy underbrush and fine timber ; while the bank on either side is so heavily screened with trailing vines , that at various places it is impenetrable to the eye . I have seen ...
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... feet or more above , are truly such , yet far from equaling those on the St. Lawrence River , and others elsewhere . They appear to have been formed by art , rather than Nature . Large loose stones obstruct the river , and the swift ...
... feet or more above , are truly such , yet far from equaling those on the St. Lawrence River , and others elsewhere . They appear to have been formed by art , rather than Nature . Large loose stones obstruct the river , and the swift ...
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... feet from the pavement to the eaves of the roofs , which project beyond the walls , and serve to wanderers as coverings from the rain . The pavements are raised , leaving the streets about two feet or more below ; and as the town is ...
... feet from the pavement to the eaves of the roofs , which project beyond the walls , and serve to wanderers as coverings from the rain . The pavements are raised , leaving the streets about two feet or more below ; and as the town is ...
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... feet high , and under which goods are piled in indiscriminate confusion . The place was dedicated to the State , but dogs , pigs , and cows here meet on equal terms , and litter and repose in perfect security . The Old Fort lies back on ...
... feet high , and under which goods are piled in indiscriminate confusion . The place was dedicated to the State , but dogs , pigs , and cows here meet on equal terms , and litter and repose in perfect security . The Old Fort lies back on ...
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... feet above the ground , and is some two feet broad by the same in thickness . It was brought from one of the islands by a sailor , and is a strange old head . The mouth being open , seems to express " Oh ! oh ! " At one corner of the ...
... feet above the ground , and is some two feet broad by the same in thickness . It was brought from one of the islands by a sailor , and is a strange old head . The mouth being open , seems to express " Oh ! oh ! " At one corner of the ...
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adventurer American arms Article Atlantic Aztecs beautiful Belize besiegers Britain Canal Captain Davis Central America Chamorro CHAPTER chief Chinandega Chontales church citizens claim Cloth colony Company Conquest Cortés Costa Rica desired district dollars enemy England English entered expedition feet FILLIBUSTERS five force foreign gold Government Granada Greytown Guatemala Honduras hundred immense Indian inhabitants interest Islands Isthmus Juan del Norte king Kinney Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua land latter leagues Leon Lord Palmerston Managua Masaya Matagalpa ment Mexican Mexico miles Minister Montezuma Mosquito Coast Mosquito nation mountains mules Muñoz nations natives occupied officers Pacific Padre party Pizarro plaza port possession present President President of Nicaragua protection provinces Realejo Republic Rio San Juan Rivas river road route soldiers sovereignty Spain Spaniards Spanish stipulations subsequently territory thence thousand tion town Transit Treaty trees tribes United vessels Virgin Bay volcanoes Walker wealth YRISARRI
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Stran 280 - America; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords or may afford, or any alliance which either has or may have, to or with any State or People for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Stran 237 - Title, and to the restoring of such prizes in the cases in which restoration shall be adjudged; and also for the purpose of preventing the carrying on of any such expedition or enterprise from the territories or jurisdiction of the United States against the territories or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace.
Stran 280 - Britain hereby declare, that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Stran 251 - The 14th article of the convention, therefore, provides that " his Catholic majesty, prompted solely by motives of humanity, promises to the king of England that he will not exercise any act of severity against the Mosquitos inhabiting in part the countries which are to be evacuated by virtue of the present convention, on account of the...
Stran 274 - State, subject to no other or higher duties, charges, or taxes than shall be imposed upon those of the United States; provided always, that such nations shall first enter into such Treaty stipulations and guarantees respecting said canal as may...
Stran 274 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been deemed proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
Stran 283 - Nicaragua possesses in and over the line of said canal, and for the same reason guaranties, positively and efficaciously, the entire neutrality of the same. so long as it shall remain under the control of citizens of the United States, and so long as the United States shall enjoy the privileges secured to them in the preceding section of this article. "3d. But if, by any contingency, the above-named 'American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company...
Stran 291 - It is a highway in which they themselves have little interest when compared with the vast interests of the rest of the world. Whilst their rights of sovereignty ought to be respected, it is the duty of other nations to require that this important passage shall not be interrupted by the civil wars and revolutionary outbreaks which have so frequently occurred in that region.
Stran 302 - States of this continent, or, in other words, the introduction of a scheme or policy which would carry with it a right to interfere in their concerns, is a measure to which the United States have long since avowed their opposition, and which, should the attempt be made, they will resist by all the means in their power.
Stran 303 - Europe, concerning the balance of power, and other subjects of controversy, arising out of the condition of its States, and which often find their solution or their postponement in war. It is of paramount importance to the States of this Hemisphere that they should have no entangling union with the Powers of the old world, a connection which would almost necessarily make them parties to wars, having no interest for them, and which would often involve them in hostilities with the other American States...