Don Horacio 



and lying along the Colorado River, 

 for the cultivation of cotton by Jap- 

 anese colonists to be imported for 

 the purpose, engaged to the time of 

 his death the constant attention of 

 Mr. Cutter, in whose far-reaching 

 vision the capitalists of Japan, Mexi- 

 co, the United States and Europe 

 were to participate jointly. 



The South Seas and all thereto 

 pertaining, especially, the royal family 

 of Tahiti, the surviving descendants 

 of the mutineers of the Bounty on 

 Pitcairn, the coral islanders and the 

 mysterious graven images of Easter 

 Island, were always for Mr. Cutter 

 unfailing sources of interesting ro- 

 mance and curious speculation. 



His last international effort, in 

 which he successfully sought the finan- 

 cial and sympathetic co-operation of 

 his friends, was an undertaking to send 

 slates, slate-pencils, and spelling-books 

 to primary schools in the Philippines. 

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