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people very friendly & good natured. As usual they were curious about our work & every evening when the men came in from the fields a number of them gathered about to watch us work. During the day a crowd of children were usually hanging about & I was amused to see them romping & playing little tricks upon one another. The children here showed more life & activity than any that I have seen in this country. The boys up to 8 or 10 went naked but at 3 or 4 yrs the girls have a skirt put on. During the work days the men were mainly busy gathering corn or attending to their small coffee plantations. Everyone has a piece of ground for corn out of the community lands & also a piece for cane or coffee if he wishes. Any citizen having the privilege of as much of the unoccupied lands as he cares to cultivate. Coffee does well in small areas here along the sides of the valley at the base of the hillslopes when sick soil has been accumulated from the wash of the hills. Elsewhere the hard sterile soil is unsuitable as are the rich but wet bottoms where corn is grown during the dry season along the creek. This locality is within the climatic area of the gulf slope and the birds & mammals belong there- The red-bellied Sciurus - also S. deppei - Coassus, Ateles &c. are found here- Otter occur in the streams here & by keeping hunters out all of the time we were there I secured two rather small specimens.