14 The Cultivation and Preparation of Coffee 



Mrs. Appenzauser (the wife of the owner) 

 devoting some hours each day to teaching the 

 native children how to read and how to write 

 Spanish and in some cases, I believe, German. 

 The management of a coffee plantation carried 

 out to such a degree of perfection tends, no 

 doubt, to the moral development of the future 

 labourer. Mr. Appenzauser, to whom I am 

 extremely obliged for the kindness he showed 

 to me during my visit to his estate, certainly 

 has set an example of what can be done in a 

 coffee plantation besides the actual coffee 

 planting. Further, the roads communicating 

 his plantation and his neighbour's were most 

 perfectly kept, and I do not doubt for a 

 moment but that natives who see their masters 

 taking a personal interest in their welfare do a 

 great deal in return towards their masters' 

 interest. Perhaps this may be the cause of the 

 tidiness of Mr. Appenzauser's estate. 



At Seamay, also in Alta Verapaz, the 

 owner, Monsieur Paul Ossay, has gone as far as 

 building a chapel, where the priest from 

 Senahu goes once a week for service. I notice 

 a similar thing in Mr. Hussmann's estate near 

 La Tinta. 



Combining In nearly all the coffee plantations I visited 



business. planters have central stores where the natives 



