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...Helser has been doing pioneer missionary work at a new station in the interior of Africa, a thousand miles from the coast. His experience as a traveler, explorer, and missionary in the Dark Continent has been extensive. He is the author of a book on travel entitled "In Sunny Nigeria" that stamps him as an expert on African customs...
...charge of sensationalism must remain absurd. Perhaps the protests of upperclassmen may be explained by resentment at any tentative attempt to invest the Freshman Dormitories with those attributes which have for so long been the monopoly of the Gold Coast. But anyone who finds sensationalism in the mild comment of the reports in question betrays a purposeful search that does him more discredit than the reports could do to any Freshman...
Early in the spring of the year 1516 Juan Diaz de Lolis entered the great estuary on the east coast of South America, now known as the River Plate, Sent out by the governor of Castilla del Oro to search for a strait connecting the Atlantic with the newly discovered Pacific, de Lolis ascended the bay then known as the Mar Dulce as far as the mouth of the Parana River whore in 1516 he was killed by Indians...
...17th Century; it was no longer a proper adventure for the gentry. But the Mosquito Indians, mindful of the exploits of the English buccaneers, persisted in the good work. For a hundred years, they ravaged the Spanish settlements, exacted tribute from Costa Rica, and expelled other tribes from the coast regions, driving them to a nomadic existence in the interior...
...into the Indian territory. Thus perished in 1894, after a short, sharp struggle, the sovereignty of the Mosquito Kings. Soldiers of fortune, gold-hunters, and all the scavengers of the Caribbean flocked into the conquered realm. Guatemala emerged after several years of political juggling, the owner of the Mosquito coast...