Report of the Special Commission Appointed by the President, January 4, 1896, to Examine and Report Upon the True Divisional Line Between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana: Transmitted by the President to the Senate on January 21, 1898, with Reports from the Secretary of State and the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Volume 1

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Page 357 - ... and countries of Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope...
Page iv - Venezuela will remain unchanged, the dispute has reached such a stage as to make it now incumbent upon the United States to take measures to determine with sufficient certainty for its justification what is the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana.
Page 73 - States sail to or trade in those held and possessed by the said Lord the King. And among the places held by the said Lords the States, shall be comprehended the places in Brazil, which the Portuguese took...
Page 73 - And among the places held by the said Lords the States, shall be comprehended the places in Brazil, which the Portuguese took out of the hands of the States, and have been in possession of ever since the year 1641, as also all the other places which they possess at present, so long as they shall continue in the hands of the said Portuguese, anything contained in the preceding Article notwithstanding.
Page 47 - It was reported that the Spaniardes were gonne out of Desekebe, which was not so. * * * The next night wee had newes brought * * * that there were tenne canoas of Spaniardes in the mouth of Coritine * * * who went along the coast to buy bread and other victuals for them in Orenoque, Marowgo, and Desekebe".
Page 161 - I tooke the said possession of a part, in name of the whole Continent of Guiana, lying betwixt the Rivers of Amazones, and Orenoque, not beeing actually possessed, and inhabited by any other Christian Prince or State ; wherewith the Indians seemed to be well content and pleased.
Page 281 - A part of these had been seized on the Essequibo side of the Barima, "and thus," wrote Storm, "within the Company's territory." But why, again and more explicitly asked the Zeeland Chamber,7 do you hold that everything which has happened on this side of Barima must be deemed to have occurred on territory of the Company?
Page 64 - Bowroome, and Dissekeeb, and having- touched at Tobago, in less than six months had the good fortune to be in possession of those countries, and left them garrisoned for his majesty of Great Britain, and sailed thence for Barbados, where meeting with the news of the eruption of war between the two crowns of England and France, endeavoured to persuade Francis Lord Willoughby to reduce those several small garrisons into one stronghold, and...
Page iii - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate of the United States : I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the...
Page 237 - No. 289. far up the creek from the sea-coast. It lies upon and fully commands the inland road through the itabos, which is used by the inhabitants and the Spaniards as the safest, but it is absolutely useless as far as regards the runaway slaves, who pass along the coast by water, that being just beyond reach of the Post. From this we see how little reliance is to be placed upon all the verbal reports of the Postholders, the latter having their own reasons for keeping up the deception, and I therefore...