These pretensions as to the Mosquito Coast are founded on the assumption of political relation between Great Britain and the remnant of a tribe of Indians on that coast, entered into at a time when the whole country was a colonial possession of Spain.
He argues that Great Britain's claims to the Mosquito Coast are based on outdated political relations with a local tribe during the colonial era.
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