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We can ride the length of the road, about two miles, for five cents. We see long lines of patient oxen plodding their way to the city, pulling clumsy carts piled high with oranges. Mayaguez is the market to which the best oranges in Puerto Rico come. Large, sweet, and luscious we find this fruit, the principal food of many of the people.
MELENDEZ Y BRUNA, D. SALVADOR. Puerto Rico. Representation of the Governor of the Island to the King. Cadiz, 1811. NAZARIO, D. JOSÉ MARÍA. Guayanilla y la historia de Puerto Rico. Ponce, 1893. PÉREZ MORIS, D. JOSÉ, Y CUETO, D. LUIS. Historia de la insurrección de Lares. SAMA, D. MANUEL MARÍA. El desembarco de Colón en Puerto Rico y el Monumento de Culebrinas, Mayaguez, 1895.
He therefore marched to Santo Domingo City and after a few days' parleying deposed Kerverseau, placed him aboard a vessel that carried him to Mayaguez, in Porto Rico, and assumed the governorship. Dessalines did not long keep him waiting.
As it was, it was promptly and gallantly repulsed, the repulse resulting in the enemy's precipitate evacuation of the city of Mayaguez, though it had been placed in a state of defence. The major-general commanding the army has been pleased to commend the troops for their gallant action on this occasion, a fact which it affords the brigade commander genuine satisfaction to announce.
Yet, though the topic is worn nearly threadbare and admittedly has nothing in particular to do with General Schwan's campaign, I venture to make, in this place, a personal contribution to the discussion in the form of an extract from a letter, written by me from Mayaguez on September 15, 1898.
Our advance-guard, after leaving San German, marched rapidly along the level road leading to Mayaguez until about three o'clock in the afternoon. As the head of our column came into view, the country people living along the route gathered their most precious possessions into huge bundles, and hurried away across the fields, a sure sign that we were approaching the enemy's position.
This road has been carried for several leagues over swampy lands, which are intersected by deep drains to carry off the water. The road from Aguadilla to Mayaguez is in some parts very good, in other parts only fair. From Aguadilla to Aguada, a distance of a league, the road is excellent and level.
We of the regular brigade had not been paid for three months. Mayaguez is a darling little city on the western coast of Puerto Rico, a place of lattices, balconies, and walled-in gardens ablaze with blossoms. Behind it lies a semicircle of green hills, and before it is the laughing sea.
The general condition of the books is bad, and the location of the library altogether unsuitable. There was a municipal appropriation of 350 pesos per annum for library purposes, but since 1898 it has not been available. Mayaguez founded its public library in 1872. It possesses over 5,000 volumes, with a small archeological and natural history museum attached to it.
"If you are shot up by an outpost," growled the general, "you will be worse off than homesick. It's forty miles to Mayaguez. Better wait till daylight. Where's the sense of dying, after the fighting's over?" "If I don't catch that transport I sure WILL die," laughed Chesterton. His head was bent and he was tugging at his saddle girths.
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