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in the Manger.—Stars and Stripes.—Transit.—Statesmen or 
Politicians?...321 
CHAPTER XXI. 
Nicaragua versus Mosquito.—Transit.—The British Interpose.— 
A Comparison between ’48 and ’68.—True Economy.—Di¬ 
plomacy and Intrigue.—Mr. Squier.—Destruction of Greytown. 
—Alabama.—Monroe Doctrine.— Use of Transits.—India- 
Rubber.—Pirn’s Bay.—Snakes.337 
CHAPTER XXII. 
Popular Errors on Mosquito.—Revulsion of Peeling.—Adieu to 
the “ Shore.”—Early Transit Efforts.—Concession.—Journey- 
ings.—Chontales.—Nicaraguan Railway Company, Limited.— 
Mr. W. H. Webb.—Junction of Atlantic and Pacific.—Nicara¬ 
guan idea of Colonization.357 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
Blewfields River.—The Great Storm of 1865.—Boat Impaled on 
Cocoa-nut Tree.-—New Eield for Professor Owen and Dr. 
Gunther.—Strong and Weak Dollars.— How to Make a 
Chowpa.-—Laying-in Provisions . ..369 
CHAPTER XXIY. 
The Start up River.—Travelling by Night.—An Arctic Negro.— 
Brackish Water.—A Carib Breakfast.—Mosquitian Villas.— 
Hieroglyphics.—Woolwa Indians.—Kisilala.— Musli-La.—A 
Live Candlestick.—Mahogany. — Its Great Value.—Indian 
Manners.—-Chocolate.—The Spanish Hammock . . . . ,385 
CHAPTER XXY. 
Up River Notes.—Indian Geographers.— Carka to Javali. 
