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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
February 22, 187122 de febrero de 1871 · New York [N.Y.] · Grant Annexation Debates & Bondholder PoliticsDebates de Anexión de Grant y Política de Bonistas

New-York tribune

SourceFuente: New-York tribune · New York [N.Y.] · February 22, 187122 de febrero de 1871
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1871-02-22/ed-1/?sp=2

In contextEn contexto

Grant Annexation Debates & Bondholder PoliticsDebates de Anexión de Grant y Política de Bonistas · 1865–1905

President Ulysses S. Grant championed a treaty to annex Santo Domingo (1869–1870), sparking a historic Senate battle led by Charles Sumner. Later coverage tracked President Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) and crushing European bond debt.El presidente Ulysses S. Grant promovió un tratado para anexar Santo Domingo (1869–1870), provocando una histórica batalla en el Senado con Charles Sumner. Informes posteriores siguieron al presidente Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) y la deuda externa.

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More on Samaná BayMás sobre Bahía de Samaná

SummaryResumen

A Tribune correspondent aboard the Tennessee, writing from Samana Bay on January 30, describes dropping anchor about two miles from Santa Barbara de Samana. He describes the town's 80 or 90 buildings, its roughly 500 inhabitants, including descendants of Black colonists sent from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware by the American Colonization Society in 1824, and a village sustained by local traffic from occasional vessels.

Un corresponsal de la Tribune a bordo del Tennessee, escribiendo desde la Bahía de Samaná el 30 de enero, describe el fondeo a unas dos millas de Santa Bárbara de Samaná. Describe los 80 o 90 edificios del pueblo, sus cerca de 500 habitantes, incluidos descendientes de colonos negros enviados desde Pensilvania, Maryland y Delaware por la Sociedad Americana de Colonización en 1824, y un pueblo sostenido por el tráfico local de barcos ocasionales.

Where this standsEn qué punto está

The full text of this article is still being prepared. Until it is ready, this page carries a summary, the passage found on the page, and the link to the original, which is always one click away.El texto completo de este artículo aún se está preparando. Hasta que esté listo, esta página lleva un resumen, el pasaje encontrado en la página y el enlace al original, que siempre está a un clic.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

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SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS —VISIT TO A PLANT

ATION.

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Ox Board THE TENNESSEE, Samana Bay, Jan. 30.

—Samana is, without doubt, the most fortunate

starting point for any exploring expedition. One

cannot help accumulating a fund of enthusiasm

which may help bim endure possible future hard

ships and disappointments. He who has glowmg

views of annexation feels them confirmed, while the

snti-annexationist 18 content to have his pet argu

ments overthrown by such a pleasant refutation.

Far out at sea the rough outline of the yellowish

mountains disappoints and prepares one for a rocky,

barren coast but, as you approach, the somber meun

tains gradually disappear, and ranges of low

hills, covered with the densest vegetation,

come in sight. A week before we had been in New

York, with ¢old and sleet and leatless trees; now we

were warm with linen clothes, and the hills before

us were covered with a mass of trees and vines,

green beyond all description, a clear, fresh color,

such as the woods with us have in Spring after a

shower. The vegetation extended down to the very

surf which dashed its spray over the graceful cocoa

palm. Higher up were dense groves of cecropia and

palmas reales—the former a slender, branchless troe

with a tuft of large white leaves, the latter with a

curiously swelled out trunk and thin wavy leaves.

Here and there were little cottages, thatched with

the bark of the palm and buried in the cool shade,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New-York tribune. (1871). New York [N.Y.], 1871-02-22. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1871-02-22/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1871-02-22.

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