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Rh on November 14, 1881, pronounced itself likewise incapable of rendering a decision.

With regard to the Trinidad, the mutineers having proceeded to the Isla del Cármen seized $4,000 of the public funds, and Navarro with a part of the crew having remained on shore, a counter-mutiny was promoted by the boatswain, who retook the ship and brought her back to Vera Cruz, June 30th. Navarro and those with him were apprehended later, in the plaza of Campeche, having with them over $2,500 of the stolen money.

During the administration of Diaz the relations of Mexico with foreign countries were greatly extended. The aim of both his foreign and domestic policy was to insure the progress and increase the prosperity of the republic. By the middle of 1877 Diaz had been recognized by Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and most of the Central and South American republics. In 1879 relations were again entered into with Portugal and Belgium, and finally with France, in October 1880, after several years of negotiation.

While new treaties of amity and commerce were thus being formed, the diplomatic and consular services were enlarged in the interest, and consequent expansion of trade. Nor was Diaz blind to the disadvantages under which Mexico lay with regard to certain existing treaties, and the proper notifications were given for their annulment in order to procure others more favorable. The relations between