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Yet in all these cases, and many others, it has been shown that immunity from disease is correlated with some slight difference in colour or structure, but as to the cause of that immunity we are entirely ignorant. At last we reached the summit of the range, which is probably not less than three thousand feet above the sea, and entered on the district of Libertad.
Besides the working of the mines proper, some surface deposits, called by the Spaniards "Mantos," are also worked for gold, especially in the neighbourhood of Libertad. The "Mantos" consist of broken quartz, covering the faces of the hills in the neighbourhood of some of the lodes.
It is the principal mining centre of Chontales. There are a great number of gold mines in its vicinity, several of which are worked by intelligent Frenchmen. The gold and silver mines of Libertad are richer than those of Santo Domingo, and many of the owners of them have extracted great quantities of the precious metals.
I thought I could make La Puerta, a hacienda three leagues nearer Libertad than Juigalpa, and as the road to it branched off from that to Juigalpa soon after passing San Diego, and Velasquez had to go to the latter place to make arrangements for getting our luggage sent on, I parted with him, and pushed on alone.
But when the government changes by revolution or by election, which sometimes happens, when no one is looking why, then the departments shift around in La Libertad to suit themselves better, and they're apt to leave their signs behind them.
He proposed the eighteenth of July for the attack. That would give us six days in which to strike camp and march to Aguas Frias. In the meantime Don Rafael remained my good friend and compadre en la causa de la libertad. "On the morning of the 14th we began our march toward the sea-following range of mountains, over the sixty-mile trail to the capital.
We fired another salute and gave another yell, while the General shook hands with us and waved his sword. "'Oh, General, shouts Jones, 'this is great. This will be a real pleasure to the eagle. Get down and have a drink. "'Drink? says the general. 'No. There is no time to drink. Viva la Libertad! "'Don't forget E Pluribus Unum! says Henry Barnes.
You are aroused at midnight to hear them shouting in the streets, "Vive la Libertad!" answered from the houses and the recesses of the vines, "Vive la Mexico!" At sunrise shots are fired commemorating the tragedy of unhappy Maximilian, and then music, the noblest of national hymns, as the great flag of Old Mexico floats up the flag-pole in the bare little plaza of shabby Las Uvas.
Thus ended the insurrection of 1890, a rising which sent three thousand brave men into eternity. What changes had taken place in four short days! At the Plaza Libertad the wreckage was most complete. The beautiful partierres were trodden down by horses; the trees had been partially cut down for fuel; pools of blood, remnants of slaughtered animals, offal, refuse everywhere.
God, I was afraid you hadn't made it." "I had to crawl on my belly and lick people's boots to do it.... God, it was low!... But here I am." They were out in the street again, walking and gesticulating. "But 'Libertad, Libertad, allons, ma femme! as Walt Whitman would have said," shouted Andrews. "It's one grand and glorious feeling.... I've been here three days.
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