A Central American Odyssey, 1861-1937 Alejandro Miranda
A Central American Odyssey, 1861-1937 Alejandro Miranda translated, edited and annotated by Stuart Witt with a historical essay by Jordana Dym illustrated by John Ashton Golden © 2005 Full Quart Press 2 Table of Contents (Page numbers are originals which appear in brackets [#] within the text.) (Boldface type indicates the change of countries in Alejandro's travels.) Maps E.G. Squier 1851 E.G. Squier 1860 Pim 1869 K. Sapper 1900 CIA 1982 (showing Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador) Illustrations by John Ashton Gordon [11] Holy Week: St. John's chalice [54] Matagalpa: The Indian War [87] A night at the ball [148] Down with Gapuchins in El Salvador! [175] The Mason becomes a locomotive engineer Notes Following page [198]. * * * * * I First Years: Chontales, Nicaragua (1861-1868) The alligator, [2] The rooster, 3 "Come when I call you!" 4 Siguanábana, the Water Witch, 5 II Life with Father (1868-1876) Juigalpa, school, and the 1869 revolution, 6 The dirty old man on the hacienda, 6 Juigalpa and father's iron mold, 8 Holy Week, St. Peter's sword, and St. John's chalice, 9 To León, 12 Biting a Gringo en route to El Salvador, 14 La Unión, El Salvador (1872-1876), 15 Scholar and altar boy, 16 Esquipulas, Guatemala, pilgrimage 16 Deviltry and perversion, 18 The British Consul's wife, 19 Venereal disease, 20 III Breaking Away (1876-1881) The peddler and his family, 21 3 Drifting to Costa Rica (1879), 23 Railroad gang in Guatemala, 28 Stevedore heroics in Acajutla, El Salvador, 29 Suspected revolutionary in San Salvador, 33 La Unión asylum and return
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