A TRIP TO BRITISH HONDURAS, AND TO SAN PEDRO, REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS

New Orlean: [George Ellis], 1868. [2],125pp. 12mo. Original stiff printed wrappers. Wrappers dust soiled, outside corners of front wrapper chipped, wear to spine strip. Quite clean internally. Very good. At the end of the Civil War, the author left his home in Warren County, Mississippi, and traveled to British Honduras in hopes that it would serve as a refuge for him and fellow Southerners ruined by the war and unable to accept the the idea of a Yankee government. In his "Prefatory Remarks," Swett writes: "If despite our exertions to the contrary, our country should be brought to the humiliating fact of equality of races existing amongst us - when an inferior holds public position, and even serve in the capacity of representatives of the people, or when we are satisfied this will be the result of what is now transpiring, it will be well to surrender this land to our persecutors...." After a trying tour of Honduras and nearby countries, it turned out Central America seemed little better, and like many self-exiled southerners, Swett returned after two years. He provides information on the flora and fauna of both British and Spanish Honduras, along with information on customs and reprints of government regulations in Spanish and English. THOMPSON 3203. PALAU 325867. SMITH, AMERICAN TRAVELLERS ABROAD S-212. EBERSTADT 105:288.