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" Nature has given to their country great pasture -lands, wonderful forests of rare woods and fruits, treasures of silver and gold and iron, and soil rich enough to supply the world with coffee, and it only waits for an honest effort to make it the natural... "
Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America - Page 148
by Richard Harding Davis - 1896 - 282 pages
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Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume 13

Electronic journals - 1897 - 784 pages
...globe. . . . Nature has done so much [in making a passage-way across Nicaragua and again at the Isthmus] that there is little left for man to do, but it will...than a nativeborn Central-American who is to do it." Mr Davis is a great ibeliever in the pressing importance of completing the Nicaraguan Canal ; and a...
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Soldiers of Fortune

Richard Harding Davis - Fiction - 2006 - 276 pages
...They are the dogs in the manger among nations. Nature has given to their country great pasture-lands, wonderful forests of rare woods and fruits, treasures...than a native-born Central-American who is to do it. [...] 1 Source: From Richard Harding Davis, Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America (New York:...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 91

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1895 - 988 pages
...owner, who fails to understand its value. The Central - Americans are like a lot of semi -barbarians in a beautifully furnished house, of which they can...makes him the youngest President in the world, and lie carries on his watch-chain a bullet which was cut out of his arm during the last revolution. He...
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American Monthly Review of Reviews, Volume 12

Albert Shaw - Periodicals, English - 1895 - 684 pages
...greatest bodies of water on tho earth's surface. Naturehas done so much that there is little left for mini to do, but it will have to be some other man than a native-born CentralAmerican who is to do it. " LET PANDEMONIUM CONTINUE : IT SUITS US" This evidence is not English, it is American, but it coincides...
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