Then, when Costa Rica invited the other republics to discuss confederation within its calm frontiers, Zelaya preferred his own particular occupation to any such procedure.

Accordingly, displeased with a recent boundary decision, he started along with Salvador to fight Honduras.

Once more the United States and Mexico tendered their good offices, and again a Central American conflict was closed aboard an American warship.

About the only real achievement of Zelaya was the signing of a treaty by which Great Britain recognized the complete sovereignty of Nicaragua over the Mosquito Indians, whose buzzing for a larger amount of freedom and more tribute had been disturbing unduly the "repose" of that small nation! To the eastward the new republic of Cuba was about to be born.

Here a promise of adequate representation in the Spanish Cortes and of a local legislature had failed to satisfy the aspirations of many of its inhabitants.