Excerpt from Central America: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, and Salvador Area and population of the Republic - Distribution of the in habitants - Composition of the people - Climate - Physical features - The mountains and the Mosquito Coast - Rivers Inland communications - The fate of some pioneer motor cars - Minerals - Vegetable products - Departments of Honduras Chief towns - Date of the establishment of the Republic Political troubles of the past - Fate of the former capital Tegucigalpa, the modern capital - The chief ports on the Atlantic coast - The banana and fruit ports of Puerto Cortes, La Ceiba, and Trujillo - Increasing prosperity of the two former The characteristics of each - The Pacific port of Amapala Products of the Republic in the order of their importance Situation of the banana trade - The price of land - The influence of new conditions - Products of lesser importance - Natural resources - Honduras as a field for investment - Mining - Tke Mina do sangre-nineteenth-century account of an extra ordinary fluid-the islands in the Bay of Honduras - Captain Mitchell's description of the island of Roatan - Ah instructive account - Appearance, manners, and customs of the inhabitants - The predicament 'of former slave-owners - Honduranean tobacco - Past and present condition of the industry - Former fame of the tobacco - Possibilities of the growth to-day - Tables showing Honduranean exports and imports - British Honduras - Some details concerning the colony. 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.