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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TRUJILLO, or TRUXILLO , a seaport on the See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

HONDURAS

Honduras, in 15° 54' N. and 86° 5' W. Pop. (1905), about 4000. The See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, an inlet of the See also:

BAY

Bay of Honduras, is sheltered on the See also:

north by the promontory of Cape Honduras; it is deep and spacious, but insecure in See also:

WESTERLY

westerly winds. See also:

MAHOGANY

Mahogany, dye-See also:

woods, See also:

SARSAPARILLA

sarsaparilla, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, hides and See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit are ex-ported; See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

FLOUR

flour, hardware and See also:

rum are imported. Trujillo was founded in 1524, and became one of the most prosperous ports of the new See also:

WORLD

world, and the headquarters of a See also:

SPANISH

Spanish See also:

NAVAL

naval See also:

SQUADRON

squadron. During the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century it was frequently and successfully raided by See also:

BUCCANEERS

buccaneers, and thus lost much of its See also:

commerce. Still more has in See also:

MODERN

modern times been diverted to Puerto See also:

Cortes and the Bay Islands.

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