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but the natural resources in an agricultural way are good The death rate is high and especially so in the town of Jilitta. The Jefe showed me the statistics for the past year for the towns in this district & Jilitta headed them all with a mortality of between 11 & 12 percent. (over 800 deaths in a population of about 8000). When it is understood that there was no epidemic to account for this it seems enormous & yet Jilitta is the center of a growing foreign Colony of coffee planters (American German & English)
We left [[strikethrough]] Jilitla [[/strikethrough]] Tancanhuitz & went on to the little town of Huehuetlan a couple of leagues beyond. This place is in the coffee center & shows signs of thrift & prosperity in the well built adobe houses with