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touching on the way there and back at various points on the coast of the 
Colony and Puerto Barrios and Guatemala. The mail steamer brings mails 
and cargo and returns with fruit taken on board at Puerto Cortes (Spanish 
Honduras), Puerto Barrios (Guatemala), and Monkey River, All Pines, and 
Stann Creek, in the Colony. 
The United Fruit Company’s cargo steamer arriving at Belize every 
fortnight (Wednesday), and leaving Belize for New Orleans the following 
Saturday, after having taken fruit at Livingston, Puerto Barrios, and Santa 
Tomas, in Guatemala, and Sarstoon, Punta Gorda, Sennis River, Stann 
Creek and Mullins River in the Colony. 
Note. — On August 4th the S.S. “ Origen ” arrived at Colon from New 
Orleans with a case of Yellow fever on board. The ship had been four 
days at the docks in New Orleans. 
MOBILE. 
The Orr Laubenheimer Company’s cargo steamer arriving at Belize 
every other Wednesday to that of the United Fruit Company’s cargo steamer, 
and leaving Belize the following Saturday, after having loaded with fruit at 
the same ports touched at by the United Company’s cargo steamer. 
From April to November in each year no passengers are allowed to 
travel by the mail and cargo steamers between the ports of the Colony and 
the ports in Guatemala and Spanish Honduras, with the exception of those 
ports where the Medical Officers of the Louisiana Board of Health are 
stationed, viz. : Belize, Livingston, and Puerto Barrios, in Guatemala, and 
Puerto Cortes in Spanish Honduras. The mail and cargo steamers take on 
board at Belize between 30 and 40 labourers each trip to handle the cargo 
discharged and fruit taken in on their voyage to Guatemala and Spanish 
Honduras. These labourers are landed at Belize on the return of the 
steamers. 
There is no other communication with ports in the United States with the 
exception of an occasional vessel bringing lumber from Pensacola, or carrying 
mahogany and logwood to New Orleans, Norfolk, Boston and Stamford, 
Connecticut. 
GUATEMALA AND SPANISH HONDURAS. 
Livingston, Puerto Barrios, San Tomas, Puerto Cortes, Ceiba, 
Utilla, Ruatan, Truxillo. 
In addition to the regular communication provided by the mail and fruit 
steamers as described above, there is constant communication between the 
Colony and the ports mentioned above, by small sailing vessels and small 
steamers, engaged in conveying from Belize goods in transit for those ports and 
returning with cattle, &c. There is also constant communication by means of 
small doreys and fishing vessels not only between the ports mentioned above, 
but with a number of small settlements on the coast of Guatemala and Spanish 
Honduras. 
