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Remarquably clean new comfortable station.  Everything perfect and well kept.  The train too is excellent.  Three classes and sleeping cars.  All constructed in U.S. Conductors dressed very much like in U.S.  Negro porter speaks good English - Jamaicans.  Cool pleasant night.  No dust. 
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Same flat landscape succession of sugar cane fields and royal palms.  Stopped at several small towns all about alike in appearance
Then passed town where the famous Trocha crossed across the island.  A stretch where all vegetation was razed for a width of one kilometer planted with little watch forts at regular distances so as to prevent the insurgent to pass from one side of the Island to the other.  [[strikethrough]] Saw [[/strikethrough]] One of the remains of these small watch towers
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was pointed out to me by Mr. [[Brod?]] the general engineer of Rubens, whom I met on the train.  Very tall man with strong limbs and big hands, and straight Stetson sombrero.  Has lived in several [[strikethrough]] sp [[/strikethrough]] latin-republics and looks the part.  Train goes about 25 miles an hour. Passed also some tobacco lands and cattle lands  
Brod tells me [[red underline]] sugar centrals pay from 15% to 25% on investment. [[/red underline]]
Train passes thru many uncleared woods, plain jungle of palm trees and other tropical trees, with hanging vines and orchids on branches. Many huts of palm trees in which negroes or natives live. Brod tells me [[red underline]] any lands with royal palm trees are good sugar lands, [[/red underline]] but all lands with palmetto are worthless as sugar lands.  Good lands in which a certain shrub (aroma?) groves become totally worthless because it is practically impossible to eradicate