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...Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, recently related to a CRIMSON representative the strange narrative of the Mosquito Kings, a story worthy of the imagination of Dean Swift. The Mosquito Coast is a small jungle district of Guatemala in Central America inhabited by some 8000 Indians and famous for its abundance of insect life. Its history runs back to the dim ages of Maya supremacy in Yucatan to the days when the Tolters ruled Mexico with their thousands of plumed warriors...
...period of which Mr. Spinden tells is from 1670 to 1894 when the Mosquito Kings ruled a wide territory of swamp and jungle and the Mosquito fleets barred a thousand miles of reefrimmed shore line. The dynasty of Oldman the First ruled through these two and a quarter centuries...
...Mosquito Coast Exploited...
...coast of Honduras along the Black River region and the socalled Mosquito coast of Guatemala are of great interest both historically and archeologically. The entire region was claimed by England early in the seventeenth century as a protectorate and a colony was established at Black River. About 1820, a man named Gregor McGregor started a land boom there in an attempt to exploit the natural resources of the country. This aroused the diplomats of both the Latin-American republics and the United States, and forced the English to give up all but what is now British Honduras. The kingdom...
...excitement; cooing Chinese in bright pajamas. They watched the horizon all morning. Some had gone home for midday tiffin, but most remained, chattering, scanning, pondering, when a school urchin jumped forward, his eyes bulging, his rigid forefinger jabbing northwestward. "I see 'um!" he cried. First it was a mosquito-like speck over the ocean, then an ephemeral insect frame, then a droning, then a roaring seaplane that circled Darwin Heads and harbor, over the blasting sirens of steamers and warships, then a tired great gull floating on Fannie Bay off the naval aviation grounds. Mechanics swarmed to lift...