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Updated: May 16, 2025
When Fructuoso Rivera, the President up to 1835, thought of choosing some one to be elected in constitutional fashion as his successor, he unwisely singled out Manuel Oribe, one of the famous "Thirty-three" who had raised the cry of independence a decade before. But instead of a henchman he found a rival.
Gaspar Fructuoso, and the islanders are still nicknamed 'prophetas. Foreigners, however, who have lately visited them, speak highly of their simple primitive ways. I boated to the Holy Port in 1862, when Messieurs Blandy's steamship Falcon was not in existence. And now as the Luso steamed along shore, no external change appeared.
I have no difficulty in believing that the Phoenicians and Carthaginians were capable of making the voyage. They were followed to West Africa in early days, according to El-Idrisi and Ibn. el-Wardi, by the Arabs. It is told with a thousand variants, and ignored by the learned Fructuoso. The historian Antonio Galvao fixes upon September 1344, the date generally accepted.
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