A NEW EXPEDITION. 



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the reader may be reminded, which in later days has been the scene of the exploits of 

 Walker the filibuster, and which may some day hold a prominent place in the eyes of 

 the world in connection with a great ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific. Having 

 promulgated his new programme, some seven hundred men enrolled themselves under 

 him. Of these he put about three hundred on the great prize ship he took at Maracaibo, 

 and the rest on five smaller vessels. Fancy an expedition of seven hundred men starting 

 on such an errand, even in these days ! What harm might they not accomplish ? 



The expedition being ready, Lolonois proceeded to a port in Hispaniola to take in 



LOLONOIS FIGHT WITH THE SPANIARDS. 



provisions, and afterwards to Matamana, on the south coast of Cuba, where he intended 

 to rob the poor turtle-hunters of their canoes. They captured as many as they wanted, 

 to the sorrow of their owners, but to their own satisfaction, as they were always useful 

 in shallow waters, and the port to which they were directing their course came under 

 that category. Hence they steered for the Cape Gracias a Dios, and being at sea were 

 becalmed for a long while, and were carried by the currents into the Gulf of Honduras. 

 The ship which carried the commander of the expedition could not keep up with the 

 rest, and what was worse, they were running short of provisions, so that they were 

 obliged to send their canoes to the river Xagua, where there were a number of 

 Indians, whom they first killed. After that, as a mere matter of secondary importance, 

 they thought it no harm to carry off the hogs, hens, and millet, of their settlements, 

 which were found in abundance. They resolved further to remain there till the bad 

 weather was over, and pillage all the villages and towns on the coast of the gulf, but 

 were not particularly successful till they came to Puerto Cavallo. Here the Spaniards 

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