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Show COUNTRY OF CONTINUAL UNREST of the coast claimed by Honduras, while to Nicaragua she agreed to surrender her protectorate pro-tectorate and recognize the sovereignty of Nicaragua. Nicaragua In turn, agreed to grant complete local self government to the Mosquito tribes, then of blood largely diluted with strain of white and Jamaica negro, and using English Eng-lish as their official language. Nicaragua sImj bound Itself to make a free port of (;retown. at the mouth of the navigable river by which the great central lake of Nicaragua dlsehsrgea Into. the Caribbean sea. and for ten year to pay annually to the Mosquito Indians a subsidy of fr,noO. After 1 year le than half of the subsidy sub-sidy had leen paid, while In violation of the treaty Nicaragua had imposed duties at Grey-town Grey-town under the pretext that they were to jay the subsidy, and had introduced a governor gov-ernor and a garrison at Uluehehls. the Mosquito Mo-squito king's capital, and was otherwise ex-Ing ex-Ing the Inhabitant so as to force them to abandon the Kngllsh language and their local self government. Finally, after most Insolent Inso-lent treatment of the Ilritlsh consul st Grey-town, Grey-town, who had been appointed the Mosq-ilto king's agent t(J receive the arrears. England sent a wsrxMjj to Greylown. Nicaragua protested pro-tested that, as the British protectorate bad been withdrawn and Nicaragua's sovereignty recngrilred ever the coast. It was none of England's buslnes whether Nicaragua fulfilled fulfill-ed the treaty stipulations In favor of the Indian. In-dian. Hut the captain of the arl.ip was not moved hy thi. and after much parley the entire matter wa nbmltted to the arbitration arbitra-tion of the emperor of Austria. On two point the Mesrsgnan contentions were upheld, Bret, that the subsidy wa of the nature of a gift, and therefore that Interest Inter-est should not be added to the arrears; and. eeond. that the vessels belonging to the Mosquito roast should hoist the Ntcnrnguan flag, though against Nlcaraguo'e contention they were allowed to hoist their own alongside along-side of It; but on every lmimrtant point the decision was In favor of England Under this decision settlers began to come In. especially from Canada and Jamaica, and business became quite brisk. Nicaragua failed In another attempt to Induce the coast to vote In favor of full citizenship, and matter mat-ter went on merrily till a few months after Zelaya rise to tho presldenecy, when. In January. 1 S4. a Nlearaguan army suddenly appeared at Illueflebls. kldna. and sent to the Interior the chief Justice and all the leading lead-ing men of the coast, and In their absence j ordered an election, with soldier at every ! polling place, to determine finully the status 1 of the roast. I In this elertton there could be only on , result, and Nicaragua announced that the coast had accepted full citizenship In Nicaragua, Nica-ragua, and. therefore. British Interference was at an end For ten e.irs. In spite of occasional at- j tempts at revolution, one nearly successful matters went on fairly at uluef.elds and ' business grew, but In U'04 there began gJg. j tematlc attempts to oppress this coast ' As a further Vexation of foreigners the i Moravian missionaries and the Church of i F.nsland rector at Pb.e.Vlds. who. iare th 1 Catholic churches have bee,. Wric.j OII, of exigence, are the only represent ulve of religion cf any kind In all this r.r.' m Slave bad tbelr achool dosed because ta - on .. ' In English. n "The beginning of the troubles that wreck Nicaragua at frequent Intervals lie back to Its discovery by Columbus. A small remnant of Indians has recently been found living on D Island near IlluehVlds, speaking the Ian-gu!n:e Ian-gu!n:e of the Aztec and having traditions of ruling In splendid cities over the subject tribes of tie coast. These cities, of which great ruin remain, at once attracted the Spaniard to the interior, in-terior, co thst from Panama to Ymatsn not an Important Spanish set 1 lenient was formed on the Caribbean const, and thus the coast tribe, freed from Atec domination, remain re-main d almost unknown to the Spaniards, t.avir.g no property worth looting. 1 tit was plenty among tie buccaneers, but fre.h food and women they lacked These the Indian supplied Commercial reunions soon grew up. which n--flil dvclote Into an alliance against the Spaniards, by menns of wl,. u the Indian Maintain d their Independence, Indepen-dence, until tlelr chief wus tarried. n 1CV!. with great pomp, to Jamaica, where be sur rendered his authority to the duke of Albemarle, Albe-marle, and wss then crowned snd received bat k bis Insignia as a vassal king, under a Jtrltlrh protectorate. rf a'l the coast from Chlvlqul lagoon to Yucatan, along what Is known as the Mosquito coast. Subject to oca.ioi,l luhcs with the Spaniard, Span-iard, matter went on thus for a century, e;.'h ni.-cen.ive Mosquito king going to Ja-r Ja-r ' for fnresture and to do homage EJn-. EJn-. r !' In 171. by the n-are of Paris. England I' filly abandoned its pro'ectorate over 1" f t'e Mosquito coast, except for the part now known as Belize, or British Honduras, wl.l. h then became and still remain a British Brit-ish colony. However. It was only II years before the French revolutionary turmoil again brought war between Spain and England. In the rourao of this, the protectorate was revived, so that. In spite of Spain' becoming later the ally of England against Napoleon, the three succeeding Mosquito kings of the first half of the nineteenth century were crowned a of old In Jamaica or Belize, and did homage hom-age for their king lorn, the last In 1M7. In l:i. after a long atruggle, all Central American broke away from Spain, and offered to Join the United States as five states, an offer which was at once refused, aa the imputation imp-utation was not considered sufficient in number num-ber to Justify ten seats In our senate, nor sufficiently advanced otherwise to he a desirable de-sirable lement The refusal stirred up bad blood against the Eng'ish Ssskng people and a dispute with England over the protectorate. protec-torate. By the Clayton llulwer treaty of 1S50. both England and the United State bound them selves not to seek etcltialve right In any part of Centr! America Again the protectorate made trouble, tnd tendon and Washington agreed on a treaty by which the Mosquito coast was to be protected by treaty with the Central American states Interested, but these refused tie suggested teim. and. Anally, In Great Britain concluded separate treaties treat-ies with Honduras and Nicaragua, by which to the first she surrendered absolutely all authority au-thority ever the almost uninhabitable portion |