Ups and Downs of a Wandering Life
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ISBN10: 1154883248
ISBN13: 9781154883244
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.42 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781154883244
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.42 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...playing for the 'In' party to remain in, as most friendly to them, and they played without any scruple as to good faith. Of course, I should have preferred Caballero to have won; it would have helped me out of many of my troubles to have had my friends in power. As it turned out, as you know, Ferreira came near, and Caballero drew his forces away without fighting him. In reply to what you say about our danger, I cannot say that we are in danger; but if you can send up a gunboat, we shall be only too glad to see it, the more so that we have no sort of representative of the English Government up here. The Italian Consul told me that we might hope to see you up here, but I fear that that is too good to be true. I must apologize for the length of this letter. It would serve no purpose to add copies of any more letters, which only tell the same story. Things only went from bad to worse, and at last food at Itap6 came to an end. General Mitre, who I was constantly seeing then, helped me to send provisions for a fortnight, but I met with nothing but refusal and insult from the Government, and when I could not gain admittance, Mr. Baillie experienced the same treatment. It must be remembered that the immigrants were forced upon the Paraguayan Government by interested speculators as a boom to the loan in England, and without even the knowledge, much less the consent, of the Paraguayan Government. As they could not revenge themselves on the London people, they took it out of us in Paraguay as best they could. I was a short time in prison, and then a prisoner at large, till my creditors thought their best chance was to send me off to England; so that was arranged, and I was allowed to go. Mr. St. John took active steps to remove almost th...