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From the early 17th century, the area now known as Belize had a troubled history.
The British Settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras was a base for privateers who carried out raids against Spanish vessels transporting gold and silver to Europe.
The coral reefs and sand bars of the coast provided hiding places from which to surprise and attack. By the time piracy was suppressed, toward the end of the 17th century, settlers--mostly British--had moved into the area's interior to develop logwood resources.
These logwood resourses continued to be important for the colony.
The small British settlement became a target for attacks from neighboring Spanish settlements as the rivalry between the Spanish and British intensified.
The first attack took place in 1717 when Spanish and Mayan soldiers entered the area from what is now Guatemala.
In the years that followed, Spain made several raids and incursions into various parts of the settlement.
British warships were commonly dispatched to the area in response. In times of threat, the settlers formed an irregular militia, with the help of slaves and Indians.
Hostilities resumed in 1779, however, when local residents fled from Spanish raiders who had kidnapped a number of settlers. This exodus was short-lived; the limits of the British settlement were defined in the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, and British settlers again returned.
Spain's last attempt to dislodge the settlers by force took place in 1798 when the Spanish fleet from Yucatán launched an attack on the settlement.
Although poorly armed and badly outnumbered, local settlers resisted.
The final skirmish involved a sea battle off Saint Georges Cay in which local forces, supported by the British sloop HM Merlin, forced a final Spanish retreat.
This is a picture of Saint Georges Cay now, looks like a paradise.
One letter, front and back both with stamps of the Mosque of Bobo Dioulasso
And here is another one
In Bobo Dioulasso, it is the home of the Bobo's. The population of the Bobo is slightly over 100,000 people. The Bobo have lived in the western region for centuries. Some believe they have been settled in the area since as far back as 800 A.D. These individuals have their own language that we know as simply the "Bobo" language, or "Mande".
The Bobo people are an inherently decentralized group. The various villages that break down their group have their own method of organizing a "political system". They base it on the relationship among individual patrilineages. The idea of placing political power in the hands of an individual is foreign to the Bobo people. The Bobo, like most other cultures, have their own religious beliefs. The creator god of the Bobo is Wuro, who is never physically represented and cannot be described in words according to the Bobo. The god Wuro is the individual responsible for ordering all things in the world into pairs, which must always remain balanced. However, man, through everyday existence is usually responsible for upsetting this balance. The Bobo religious system involves restoring order through a series of offerings.
