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Without, she was coated in a shearing of ice, but within she reeked of Spanish-America of coffee, rubber, and raw sugar. Pineapples were still swinging in a net from the awning-rail, a two-necked water- bottle hung at the hot mouth of the engine-room.
The result was he launched forth again on the riches of his Venezuelan concession and loaded me down with "literature," which I crammed into my pocket for future reference. My next step was to drop into the office of a Spanish-America paper whose editor was especially well informed on South American affairs. "Do I know Mrs.
This war and "the Turks of Britain and Prussia" The Anglo-Saxon and opposed ideals Mr. C. Chesterton's case for "killing and being killed" as the best method of settling differences Its application to Civil Conflicts As in Spanish-America The difference between Devonshire and Venezuela Will the Balkans adopt the Turco-Venezuelan political ideals or the British?
The first movement worthy of note came in 1823. It was a consequence of the general movement that extended throughout Spanish-America and resulted in the independence of all Spain's former colonies, excepting Cuba and Porto Rico. That the influence of so vast a movement should have been felt in Cuba was almost inevitable.
The independence movement in the States of Spanish-America may be said to have had its definite beginning in 1806, when Francisco Miranda, a Venezuelan, sailed from New York with three ships manned by American filibusters, although the first land battle was fought in Bolivia, in 1809, and the last was fought in the same country, in 1825.
When the war with Russia ended, Baron Takaki, Surgeon-General of the Japanese Army, boasted that whereas in the Spanish-America War "fourteen men died from preventable diseases to one man killed on the field of battle," the Japanese had lost only one man from disease to every four from bullets.
Now, in Spanish-America there are vast depositories of salt both in mines and on plains, with salt lakes called salinas; yet, for want of a proper commercial activity existing among these people, in many places the valuable article, salt, is both scarce and dear. In Mexico dried or "jerked" beef is called "tasajo."
In compliance with this order of His Majesty, I can do no less than observe to you, sir, how unfounded one of the reasons is in your note of the 6th instant for the recognition by this Government of those of the insurgent Provinces of Spanish-America that it was founded on the treaty made by O. Donojú with Iturbide since not having had that power nor instruction to conclude it it is clearly null and of no value.
Heizer consented to let me go to sea, from New York; or affected to consent; I never knew which. The Leander, Miranda's flag-ship, in his abortive attempt to create a revolution in Spanish-America, was then lying in the Hudson; and Dr. Heizer, who was acquainted with some one connected with her, placed me in this ship, with the understanding I was to go in her to Holland.
Besides, the time for separatist movements in the West had passed, while the time for arousing the West to the conquest of part of Spanish-America had hardly yet come.
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