Excerpt from The Coast of Mosquito and the Boundary Question: Between New Granada and Costa Rica Various corsairs or pirates sailed out of Jamaica soon after that island fell into the hands of the English, employed themselves for some time in various piratical enterprises along the coasts of Honduras, Mosquitos, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Tierra Firme, until the Span ish Government weary of their depredations and having concluded her war with England, found herself able to at tack them with success and to free these coasts from their hostilities. Those who survived this persecution, which took place at'the close of the 17th century joined them selves with other adventurers of different nations and took refuge in the Gulf of Honduras with the object of conti nuing their criminal c'areer under the pretext of cutting woods, which operation they indeed undertook claudes tinally, extending it to the Coast of Mosquito. At length, after a series of claims and dissentions between Spain and Great Britain, by the treaty of 1763 the latter oh tained for her subjects the right of cutting logwood, on condition of erecting no fortificat'aquella manera. En 1824 se espidieron por el Gobierno de Colombia otros actos sobre este particular, entre los cuales figura el decreto de 5 de julio de aquel ano, con tra los proyectos de colonizacion de la Costa de Mos quitos por varies aventureros estranjeros, cuyo decreto sostenido por los cruceros o guardacostas, desbarato enteramente las empresas que se proyectaban; ipara asegurar mas eficazmente su observancia, fue publicado en Inglaterra, en los Estados Unidos i en otros muchos paises a donde se comunico, sin que en ninguna parte se suscitara la menor duda acerca del perfecto dominio que la Republica xejercia en la precitada costa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.