The lesser living vents are called infernillos--little hells.

Altogether it looks like Central America, as a whole, with its revolutions and its physical and political instability, must be a very big hell.
Salvador, though the smallest of the Central American States, is the most prosperous, enterprising and densely-populated.

She was the first to become independent and the first to defy the Church of Rome.
It had been my intention to sail through Lake Nicaragua and down the river San Juan to San Juan del Norte.

But accommodation at that port and steamer communication with Colon was so bad and irregular that the trip was regretfully abandoned, and I went on to Panama with my friend.

This gentleman possessed a personal letter from President Roosevelt addressed to the canal officials, ordering (not begging) them to permit a full inspection of the works, and to tell the "truth and the whole truth." Consequently we saw the works under unusual and most favourable conditions.