Word: guatemala
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Central American revolutions have caused many a jape from the pens of Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found...
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Landing at Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean, the pair made their way by train through the humid tropic zone of the Atlantic slope, on their way to the capital, Guatemala City. In their journey they were assisted throughout their stay by the officials of the United Fruit Company, who did everything to forward their researches...
...train then begins a steady rise, and in the space of 30 miles has attained an altitude of thousands of feet, in a country creased by gorges and ravines, where the capital, Guatemala City, is located. A distinctly different fauna inhabits this part of the country...
...study of species is complicated in this and the succeeding zone, where the highest mountains of Guatemala are located, by reason of the changes in fauna which occur, not only as one ascends or descends a mountain peak through various levels in its 13,000 or 14,000 feet. In this arid subtropical plateau there are peaks which have birds of the tropical desert at their base, of the arid subtropical plateau upon their slopes, and of the temperate regions on their summits. All this complicates the task of a cataloguer. It is necessary to state at what altitude...