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for it (properly 13¢ American). The money of this country is odd. American bills are the standard; Guat. bills are worth about 3¢ to the dollar American; & they will refuse to make a sale rather than take their own silver money, which circulates in H., where they don't use their own bills. Today, for instance, on the back trip, I could have bought a nice fresh pineapple for myself + G. for 5¢ American or $10 in Guat. paper. But my offer of 2 reales Guat. silver (properly 13¢ Amer.) was refused absolutely. I raked out 20¢ remaining to me in small change (Amer.) + will get some tomorrow. I go up to Cristina again tomorrow, while G. goes to Gualan to get a palm, + Sat. we go to Amates with all our kit, there to meet Major A. & Humon. Then we shall be able to make final plans for our last one or two weeks' work. 

It was a pleasant ride home today, past forests of te graceful coroso palm & bamboo, with many other tropical trees, fields of bananas, and little houses or villages bright with red mallows & with an occasional cocoapalm, with the San Francisco Mountains bordering the plain

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The last pages I reviewed had the name "Human", now this one looks like "Humon". Anyone know what is right. I just looked back over the last, and there is no "o".