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The bank problem had become a leading party issue. Democrats opposed and Whigs generally favored the banks. It was so in Iowa, where the agitation was enlivened by the presence of the "Miners' Bank of Du Buque." This institution, which was established in 1836 by an act of Congress, had been the local storm center of the bank question.
"Del buque de guerra el Candahar de la regna Ingleterra we belong to Her Majesty's ship, Candahar!" Bad Spanish or not, however, the poor fellow understood me.
In the latitude of 25° S. they entered a port which they named St Augustine in a kingdom called Vavalinta, of which a Buque named Diamacrinale was king, who no sooner saw the Portuguese than he asked if these were some of the men from the other coast.
I soon had to exercise my new office of interpreter, for the man began shouting again on seeing Mr Jellaby and the coxswain near him. "Ah del buque!" he screamed out, holding up, as if to signal with it, one of his emaciated hands, the bony fingers of which looked like those of a skeleton. "Como se llama el buque?" "He says `ship ahoy! sir," I explained to the doctor. "`What ship is that?"
Just then the captain came in, followed by Lieutenant Jellaby, to make inquiries, the doctor having reported his patient convalescent. "El capitano this is the Captain," said I, to attract his attention to the new arrivals as they advanced up to his chair. "El capitano del nostro buque the captain of our ship!"
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