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DOTTINGS ON THE ROADSIDE. [Ciiap. IY.—B. S. 
pose to people who liaye been disappointed in ob¬ 
taining suitable “runs” in Australia. The wool 
■mi ght, be exported by way of the river Coco, which 
empties itself into the Atlantic at Cape Gracias a Dios, 
and has recently been opened to trade by English 
mahogany-cutters and india-rubber collectors. This 
route was well known to the buccaneers, who occasion¬ 
ally came up to these mountains to ease the inhabi¬ 
tants of any spare cash or useless trinkets they might 
happen to have. They would not find much at present, 
even in the capital of the department. 
