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English: Four watercolors showing dwellings in Bluefields on the Mosquito Coast (also Mosquito Shore), then a British protectorate. They are the work of a traveler who was in Bluefields in July 1845.

The same year these watercolors were done, the new Miskito boy king and his guardian, the British Agent, settled in Bluefields, which had been chosen as the "capital" of the Miskito Coast. German Moravian Church colonists settled there early in 1847 but nearly all had left three years later.

"Bluefields is the capital of Mosquitia. It is situated on the river and lagoon of the same name. In the midst of the palms bordering the river is the residence of the king, and his English tutor or guardian, over which floats the British flag. At some distance from this is the House of Justice, which is under the Mosquitia flag." (Belize newspaper article from the late 1840s)