. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 90° West oF Greenwich. 310 Miles. isthmian region, and one of the cardinal paints in the hi-^tory of the New World. This privileged region is the narrow strip of territory comprised between the Pacific and the shores of Lakes Managua and Nicaragua. Here reigned the famous cacique, Nicarao, whose name has been perpetuated in a Spanish form as that of the Hispano-American republic. Like Honduras, Nicaragua suffered much from the incursions of the corsairs on its Atlantic side, and here, also. Great Britain long sought to secure a perma- nent footing. The sect

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. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 90° West oF Greenwich. 310 Miles. isthmian region, and one of the cardinal paints in the hi-^tory of the New World. This privileged region is the narrow strip of territory comprised between the Pacific and the shores of Lakes Managua and Nicaragua. Here reigned the famous cacique, Nicarao, whose name has been perpetuated in a Spanish form as that of the Hispano-American republic. Like Honduras, Nicaragua suffered much from the incursions of the corsairs on its Atlantic side, and here, also. Great Britain long sought to secure a perma- nent footing. The section of the seaboard known as Mosquitia, or the Mosquito Coast, was even claimed by the English Government, and but for the intervention of the United States, the whole space comprised between the Nicaragua River and Honduras Bay would have become British territory. In virtue of the Monroe doctrine, '^ America for the Americans," this territory was restored to the republic

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