Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850The subject of the Mosquito country has lately acquired a...
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Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850

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Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850

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Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850

The subject of the Mosquito country has lately acquired a general interest. I am anxious to insert the following "Notes and Queries" in your useful periodical, hoping thus to elicit additional information, or to assist other inquirers. 1. As to the origin of the name. I believe it to be probably derived from an native name of a tribe of Indians in that part of America. The Spanish Central Americans speak of Moscos. Juarros, A Spanish Central American author, in his History of Guatemala, names the Moscos among other Indians inhabiting the north-eastern corner of that tract of country now called Mosquito: and in the "Mosquito Correspondence" laid before Parliament in 1848, the inhabitants of Mosquito are called Moscos in the Spanish state-papers. How and when would Mosco have become Mosquito? Was it a Spanish elongation of the name, or an English corruption? In the former case, it would probably have been another name of the people: in the latter, probably a name given to the part of the coast near which the Moscos lived. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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