My Residence 53 
women have children at an early age, and make kind and 
indulgent mothers. 
The village is bounded to the eastward by the mines and 
hacienda of the Chontales Mining Company, whose houses, 
workshops, and machinery are on rising ground on each side 
of the valley, with the brook running down between. About 
fifty acres of the forest have been cut down, and a great deal 
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of this is fenced in and covered with grass. Going up the 
valley from the village, on the right-hand side, about fifty 
yards from the road, on a grass-covered slope, stand the 
houses of the commissioner and cashier, in the latter of which 
the medical officer also lives. The former, a large, white- 
washed, square, two-storied, wooden house, with verandahs 
round three sides of it, and communicating by a covered 
passage with a detached kitchen behind, had been built by 
one of my predecessors, Captain Hill, R.N., who did not live 
to inhabit it. It was a roomy, comfortable house, command- 
