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of Aborigines.—Eating Monkey not Cannibalism.—A Spanish 
Riot Act.—A Cacique’s Idea of the Pope.241 
CHAPTER XYI. 
A Pleasure Trip.—Current and Coasting.—Aspect of Country 
and Soundings.—Pirn’s Bay and Cays.—Blewfields Bluff.— 
The King of Mosquito.—His Library.—Opinion of Yankees . 257 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Mr. Miertsching.—Account of Mosquito Mission.—The Kama 
Indians. —Last Census Returns, 1868.—A Moravian Church. 
—History of the Moravians.—Their Eorm of Government.— 
The c Messenger of Peace ’.274 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
A Naive Confession.—Queen Dowager and Princesses.—Unso¬ 
phisticated Nature.—A Eleet of Turtlers.—A Plungry Shark. 
■—His Majesty on Board .291 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Aborigines.—Manners and Customs.—Births, Deaths, and Mar¬ 
riages.—Mosquito Indians v. Trades Unions.—Early History 
of Mosquito.—Nelson’s Attack on Nicaragua.—Bill of Eare. 
—An Interesting Comparison.—Bolivar’s Prediction.—Yearly 
Revolutions.. 305 
CHAPTER XX. 
The Corn Islands.—Good Eeeding-Ground.—A Rainy Pact.— 
Yalue of a Slave.—Cheap Philanthropy.—Buccaneer Haunts. 
—Old Providence.—St. Andrew’s.—Mosquito Treaty.—Dog 
