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ing, and to-day hundreds of beautiful plantations line the river 

 banks for many miles, producing an average of forty thousand 

 bunches per week, and Bluefields ships more of this fruit than 

 any two other ports of the world. Among the signs of American 

 influence is the appearance of the newspaper, a never- wanting ad- 

 j anct to every well-regulated American embryo city. The paper, 

 printed in English and issued weekly, is called the Bluefields Sen- 

 tinel. It has quite a United States air about it, and is well pep- 



FIG. 3. THE MOSQUITO CHIEF AND EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: 1, Robert Henry Clarence, chief ; 

 2, Hon. Charles Patterson, vice president and guardian; 3, Hon. J. W. Cuthbert, attor- 

 ney general and secretary to the chief; 4, Mr. J. W. Cuthbert, Jr., government secretary ; 

 5, Mr. George Raymond, councilman and headman; 6, Mr. Edward McCrea, councilman 

 and headman. 



pered with advertisements. The spiritual and educational welfare 

 of the community has been taken in hand by the " Moravian Mis- 

 sion," whose little churches and schools are scattered all over the 

 territory, and on Sunday the single street of Bluefields is alive 

 with churchgoers, who seem to be coming and going to and from 

 religious service all day long. 



The government of the Mosquito Reservation consists of the 

 hereditary chief and an Executive Council, the members of the 



