Author: Ephraim George SquierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Adventures on the Mosquito Shore
Author: Ephraim George SquierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Waikna; Or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore
Author: Ephraim George SquierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mosquitia
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Waikna
Author: Ephraim George SquierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Adventures on the Mosquito Shore
Author: Ephraim George SquierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mosquitia
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Waikna, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore
Author: Samuel A. BardWaikna ; Or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore
Author: Samuel A. BardWaikna: Or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore
Author: Ephraim George SquierPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813002170
Category : Mosquitia
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
ADV ON THE MOSQUITO SHORE
Author: E. G. (Ephraim George) 1821-188 SquierPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781360132334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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Waikna; Or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore. by Samuel A. Bard [pseud. ]
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Author: E. G. (Ephraim George) SquierPublisher:
ISBN: 9781418109202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Waikna, Or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore
Author: Ephraim George SquierPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230304748
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE MOSQUITO SHORE. The general physical characteristics, and the climate and productions of the Mosquito Shore, have probably been sufficiently indicated in the foregoing rapid narrative. Nevertheless, to supply any deficiencies which may exist in these respects, as well as to illustrate the history of this coast, to which recent political events have given some degree of interest, I have here brought together a variety of facts derived from original sources, or such as are not easily accessible to the general reader. The designation " Mosquito Shore" can only properly be understood in a geographical sense, as applying to that portion of the eastern coast of Central America lying between Cape Gracias a Dios and Bluefields Lagoon, or between the twelfth and fifteenth degrees of north latitude, a distance 01 about two hundred miles. The attempts which have been made to apply this name to a greater extent of shore, have had their origin in strictly political considerations. This coast was discovered by Columbus, in his fourth voyage, in 1502. He sailed along its entire length, stopping at various points, to investigate the country, and ascertain the character of its inhabitants. He gave it the name Cariay, and it was accurately characterized by one of his companions, Porras, as " una tierra muy baja," a very low land. Columbus himself, in his letter to the Spanish sovereigns, describes the inhabitants as fishers, and " as great sorcerers, very terrible." His son, Fernando Columbus, is more explicit. He says, they were " almost negroes in color, bestial, going naked; in all respects very rude, eating human flesh, and devouring their fish raw, as they happened to catch them." The language of the chroniclers...