Travels in the Free States of Central America: Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador [2]

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TRAVELS IN THE FREE STATES OP

CENTRAL AMERICA VOL.

II.

London: Spottiswoode & New- street Square.

Printed by

Co.

TRAVELS IN THE FREE STATES OF

CENTKAL AMEEICA: NICARAGUA, HONDURAS, AND SAN SALVADOR.

BY

DR.

CARL SCHERZER.

IN

TWO VOLUMES.

VOL.

II.

LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. 1857.

CONTENTS OF

THE SECOND VOLUME

CHAPTER

XVII.

FROM TEGUCIGALPA TO COMAYAGUA. Travelling Troubles. Servants. Prairies.

— Want

— Tropical

— The

of good Animals and honest

Forest Conflagrations and burning

Indian

Summer

of the Southern

Hemi-

—Proteccion. — Poor Foresters.— Unpleasant Night Bivouac. — The Valley of Comayagua. — Town of Sau Antonio. — Arrival the PresiComayagua. — Letter dent — Scarcity of Provisions. — Jose Barrundia. — Visit from the President. — Conversation. — North sphere.

to

in

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American Company, and Eailroad Projects and ProPage 1 spects

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— CONTENTS OF

VI

CHAP. XVIIL CONCEPCION DE COMAYAGUA.

— Frequent Changes the Government. — The Constitution. — Share of the Movements. —Proposal by a Catholic the Clergy

The

President's Audience

Chamber.

in

Political

in

Bishop for the Marriage of Priests, and the Legitimation

— Prospects Protestant — Constituents of University and School Population. — Budget. — Military Force Finances. — Friends Need. — North American

of their Children.

for

Settlers.

the

Instruction.

State

Speculators.

Don Jose

in

Barrundia, and his last Mission

CHAR

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Page 18

XIX.

— Botanical Excursions. — A Remedy Cholera. — New Arrivals. — Companions on the Road.

Society in Comayagua. for

— Las Piedras Villa de Paz. — Don Manuel Esco— The Priest of Las Piedras and Mule. — The Hunger Root. — Price of Provisions. — German and EngConsuls. — Incasapa. — Melancholy Prospects. — — Good Friday Procession. — Don Simon Gomez. Indians attempt obstruct our Progress. — The Hacienda ;

or,

la

his

bar.

Inti-

lish

bucat.

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to

of San Jose

38

— THE SECOND VOLUME.

Vll

CHAP. XX. GRACIAS A DIOS.

— TALCUA.

Town — Our Quarters. — — Excursion the Environs. — Historical Notices. — Inhabitants. — Earthquakes. — A curious Procession. — A — military Escort. — La Flora. — A musical — — Report on the Road. Talcua. Rio Cospa. — A White more a Black. — Industry of the People. — Solemn Ride through the Pine Woods. — A Resource case of Attack. — Arrival Santa Rosa. — The hospitable Padre. —.A good Lodging Page 66

Melancholy Aspect of the

Distress.

to

Village.

111

like

in

at

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CHAP. XXI.

— Excellence of Climate and — Present Condition. — Population. — Cultivation Staof Tobacco. — Dread of an Invasion from Guatemala. — Merchants endeavouring place Goods — — of the Commandant. State of the Garrison Santa Rosa. — What Revolution gives and what takes away. — A merry Party. — Santa Rosa. Defence. Repeated Reports of Invasion. — Preparations — Two new Companions. — Departure of the 80 Brunswick — Farewell Santa Rosa

Aspect of the Town.

Situation.

tistics

their

to

Visit

Security.

of

it

for

travelling

er.

to

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in

— CONTENTS OF

Vlll

CHAP. XXII. FROM SANTA ROSA TO THE WESTERN FRONTIER OF HONDURAS.

— An unpleasant Ride Guar— Cucuyagua. — Men and Animals before the Enemy. — The Difference between a North American and German. — A Spy. — Meeting with Guardiola. — The Padre Fright turns common Informer, — Col— The Indian Hero Lempira. — Family Affection the Tropics. — News of the Destruction the City of San Salvador by an Earthquake. — Adventures

My

travelling Companions.

diola again.

fly

a

in his

quin.

in

of

at last.

Cotalaca.

— Olosingo, the

The Frontier

last

-

CHAP.

Settlement in Honduras.

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Page 100

XXIII.

SAN SALVADOR.

— Boundaries, Area, &c. — Volcanoes. — Rivers. — Lakes. — The Harbour of La Union. — Acajutla and La Concordia. — of the Country the Separation from Spain. — The — Educa— Clergy. Tithes and the Ofrenda

Physical Geography of the Country.

Political State

since

Religiosa.

;

— Population. — Cultivation of Indigo and other Plants. — Balsam-wood Tree. — Silver Mines.

tional Institutions.

Trade

in the various Seaports

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120

— •

THE SECOND VOLUME.

IX

CHAP. XXIV. SUCHITOTO.

The

first

tion.

—

Village in San Salvador.

—A

consolatory Reflec-

Fictitious Reports concerning the ruined City.

The Rio Lempa and

its

Banks.

— Arrival

—

at Suchitoto.

— News — of Dr. Wagner. Few Persons the Earthquake. —A whole City Lodging-hunting. — Aspect, Climate, &c. — Friendship among Europeans these Hospitable Reception by an Old Spaniard.

First

killed in

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Suchitoto,

Countries

its

in

Page 136

CHAP. XXV. FROM SUCHITOTO TO SONSONATE. Increased Difficulty of Travelling.

— An honest Servant.

— No News of Dr. Wagner. — Quesallepeque. — — The A Church Priest and Ruins of San Salvador. — The Prussian Vice-consul's — News of Dr. Wagner from a Palm-tree. — From — San Salvador Sonsonate. — Indians with Sight of the Probable Cause of the Malady. — — An unpleasant Night. — renowned Volcano of Apopa.

Properties.

his

fugitive

Will.

Goitres.

to

First

Isalco.

Arrival at Sonsonate

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151

CONTENTS OF

CHAP. XXVI. THE DESTRUCTION OF SAN SALVADOR ON THE EASTER NIGHT OF 1854.

— Devotion interrupted. — The Volcano of San Salvador. — Signs of former Activity. — of Easter Morning. — Grand Promenade of — A warning Shock. — Fever, Earthquake, and Darkness. — The Catastrophe. — A Night Walk through — The Interior of the Franciscan Conthe ruined — The University Clock. — The Augustine Monk, Estevan — Noble Conduct of the President. — A

Gloomy

Portents.

its

Festivities Saints.

City.

vent.

Castillo.

Prophecy not

Page 167

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fulfilled

CHAP. XXVII. SONSONATE. Occupations. — The People and — Daily Consumption of Provisions. — High School and — Padre Jose Maria Navarro. — The Primary — Active Volcanoes dangerous than Volcano of — State of the Clergy. — Indian those supposed Population. — Tlaskeltek Settlements. — The Harbour of Acajutla. — Excursion the Chavias. — Tropical Gar— Plans the New dens and European — The Valley of Santa Tecla 183

Situation and Climate.

their

Schools. Isalco.

less

extinct.

to

Fields.

Capital.

for

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THE SECOND VOLUME.

XI

CHAP. XXVIII. RAMBLES ON THE WEST COAST.

—

State of Things in

San Salvador before the Earthquake. Influence of the Civil Wars on the Character of the

— The Port of La Union. — From La Union San Miguel. — Kight Quarters Sambo Family. — — — Groundless Fears. Character of the Coast The Town San Miguel and Volcano. — Glance the Highlands. — Poverty of the People. — San Vicente. — The Volcano. — The Town of Cojutepeque. — The Inhabitants.

in a

to

Plains.

of

its

at

old

provisional Seat of

Government

Page 201

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CHAP. XXIX.

—RESEMBLANCE

TO THAT OF SAN

THE GULF OF FONSECA.