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Of this I saw abundance of evidence. Every day his men came in from 8 to 9 o'clock & by [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] half past eight to nine went straggling out to work. They came in for dinner & spent an hour or more & came back from work before it began to get dark. They were paid full wages (50¢) & he had to persuade & treat with them to get them to work at all. In the field they were extremely idle so that they accomplished very little in a day. It is the custom here to plant land 2 yrs. in succession & then clear a new piece of woodland. We found the dry hills a long the coast here rather barren of animal life as compared with places with more abundant vegetation & moisture. Still we secured a fair set of small mains. The Tapir occurs here in dense thickets usually along the course of small straws.
⁋On Mch. 15th we left Puerto Rugel and returned to Pochutla.
[[strikethrough]]On the[[/strikethrough]] During all of our stay at the Port we had to make almost daily trips to Pochutla with the pack mules to bring out feed as the price was excessively high at this Port. As my money is running short we had also to do our own