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...Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, recently related to a CRIMSON representative the strange narrative of the Mosquito Kings, a story worthy of the imagination of Dean Swift. The Mosquito Coast is a small jungle district of Guatemala in Central America inhabited by some 8000 Indians and famous for its abundance of insect life. Its history runs back to the dim ages of Maya supremacy in Yucatan to the days when the Tolters ruled Mexico with their thousands of plumed warriors...
...Mosquito Coast Exploited...
...coast of Honduras along the Black River region and the socalled Mosquito coast of Guatemala are of great interest both historically and archeologically. The entire region was claimed by England early in the seventeenth century as a protectorate and a colony was established at Black River. About 1820, a man named Gregor McGregor started a land boom there in an attempt to exploit the natural resources of the country. This aroused the diplomats of both the Latin-American republics and the United States, and forced the English to give up all but what is now British Honduras. The kingdom...
...Nicaraguan coast, lies Santa Catalina island, called Providence by the English, but known to the world of readers as "Treasure Island" This little isle made famous by the magic of Robert Lonis Stevenson's pen is a barren but romantic spot with a rocky cliff towering 180 feet in the air. This entire coast was once the haunt of the buccaneers, and the people of the island still show traces of the freebooters...
Dying of cancer in her sixties in a Pacific coast boom town, with loutish roomers clumping overhead and with no love left for her patient, tender, ineffectual husband, Myra was bitter over her self-defeat, until the end. Passion had made her a lowly bed; she had writhed on it for years. She still could laugh at some of life's absurdities. Some of its beauty was still warm to her-Heine's poems, her own lovely hands. But her steely pride was turned upon itself, 'her mortal enemy. Not even religion could resign...