Juan José Flores

In the name of the sovereign people, the deputies of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca framed a constitution in hot haste, giving universal suffrage one chamber a president elected every four years, and the naturalization of all strangers, whether civil or military.

The new president was General Juan Jose Flores, a native of Venezuela, who for a long time had been the military chief of the country and one of Bolivar's best officers.

He was a thorough gentleman, as distinguished in society as in the field.

But he soon found himself unable to cope with the strange mercenary troops that the new constitution had been foolish enough to naturalize.

In the name of the sovereign people, the deputies of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca framed a constitution in hot haste, giving universal suffrage one chamber, a president elected every four years, and the naturalization of all strangers, whether civil or military.

The new president was General Juan Jose Flores, a native of Venezuela, who for a long time had been the military chief of the country and one of Bolivar's best officers.

He was a thorough gentleman, as distinguished in society as in the field.

But he soon found himself unable to cope with the strange mercenary troops that the new constitution had been foolish enough to naturalize.

The first Congress was held in Riobamba, but Quito has ever since been the political focus.

The first president was General Flores.

Under the diadem of the Incas, Quito assumed a magnificence which it never saw before and has not displayed since.

It was the worthy metropolis of a vast empire stretching from the equator to the desert of Atacama, and walled in by the grandest group of mountains in the world.

Women in red, brown, and blue frocks are peddling oranges and alligator pears, or bearing huge burdens on their heads.

Children, guiltless of clothing, and obtuse donkeys wander whithersoever they will, and water carriers, filling their jars at the fountain, start off on a dog trot.

We cross the plaza diagonally, pass down the Calle de San Fernando, up the Calle de Algador, and through the busy Calle del Correo, until we reach the Casa Francis, opposite the mansion of the late General Flores.

This is our hotel, owned by a Frenchman but kept by an Indian.

In the name of the sovereign people, the deputies of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca framed a constitution in hot haste, giving universal suffrage one chamber a president elected every four years, and the naturalization of all strangers, whether civil or military.

The new president was General Juan Jose Flores, a native of Venezuela, who for a long time had been the military chief of the country and one of Bolivar's best officers.

He was a thorough gentleman, as distinguished in society as in the field.

But he soon found himself unable to cope with the strange mercenary troops that the new constitution had been foolish enough to naturalize.

The first congress was held in Riobamba, but Quito has ever since been the political focus.

The first president was General Flores.

Under the diadem of the Incas, Quito assumed a magnificence which it never saw before and has not displayed since.

It was the worthy metropolis of a vast empire stretching from the equator to the desert of Atacama, and walled in by the grandest group of mountains in the world.

Women in red, brown, and blue frocks are peddling oranges and alligator pears, or bearing huge burdens on their heads.

Children, guiltless of clothing, and obtuse donkeys wander whithersoever they will, and water carriers, filling their jars at the fountain, start off on a dog trot.

We cross the plaza diagonally, pass down the Calle de San Fernando, up the Calle de Algador, and through the busy Calle del Correo, until we reach the Casa Frances, opposite the mansion of the late General Flores.

This is our hotel, owned by a Frenchman but kept by an Indian.

In the name of the sovereign people, the deputies of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca framed a constitution in hot haste, giving universal suffrage one chamber, a president elected every four years, and the naturalization of all strangers, whether civil or military.

The new president was General Juan Jose Flores, a native of Venezuela, who for a long time had been the military chief of the country and one of Bolivar's best officers.

He was a thorough gentleman, as distinguished in society as in the field.

But he soon found himself unable to cope with the strange mercenary troops that the new constitution had been foolish enough to naturalize.