Abstract
SPANISH HONDURAS. Puerto Cortez, the principal seaport town on the Atlantic side of Spanish Honduras, is reached from Belize by boat in twelve hours. On the downward trip the steamers of the United Fruit Company make a short stop at Port Barrios. The larger part of the voyage is made in what is practically an inland sea made by the numerous islands, or keys, as they are called, situated some distance from the coast, constituting as they do a broken seawall. Port Barrios is a small dilapidated village notwithstanding it is the Atlantic terminus of the Guatemala Railroad. The cornerstone laid for a public building by the late General Barrios remains as he left it, but is beginning to show the effects of the ravages of the elements and the gradual decay of old age. Puerto Cortez is a strange little city, lining as it does the shore for more
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