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CHAPTER XXII. 
POPULAR ERRORS ON MOSQUITO.-REVULSION OF FEELING.- 
ADIEU TO THE “SHORE.”-EARLY TRANSIT EFFORTS.-CON¬ 
CESSION. -JOURNEYINGS. — CHONTALES.-NICARAGUAN RAIL¬ 
WAY COMPANY,, LIMITED.—MR. W. H. WEBB.-JUNCTION OF 
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.—NICARAGUAN IDEA OF COLONIZATION• 
When we sailed from Jamaica, our stay on the Mos¬ 
quito coast was looked forward to with anything but 
pleasure; the feeling was rather one of dread, and at 
that time the mere chance of escape from sojourning 
in such a climate and country would have been hailed 
with delight. But a short time sufficed to show how un¬ 
deserved was the abuse which had been lavished upon 
it, and so far from rejoicing, it was with real regret 
that my announcement of departure was received. 
And here I must take the opportunity, while bidding 
a sort of official adieu to Mosquito, of mentioning how 
it came to pass that so different a feeling prevailed 
from that anticipated. I have never been to any part 
of the world so bad that it might not he made to 
appear much worse by a disposition to gloom and de¬ 
spondency on the part of those whose fate led them 
