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right angles to the first. The houses were built with very- 

 wide boards for walls but had roofs of heavy tiles or of cor- 

 rugated iron. One store, the Hotel Internacional and the 

 Government building were two-storied, all other buildings 

 had but one. The grass-covered plaza lay south of the 

 tracks. Its east side was occupied by the church, which was 

 quite un-Spanish looking. It was long and low, but the 

 plaster-covered west facade was two-storied and surmounted 

 by a peaked cupola; the numerous windows were filled with 

 clear glass and had round heads. The church stood in a 

 pretty garden, with boundaries of square brick pillars and 

 iron bars, while before the entrance porch were two rows of 

 cocoanut palms. Within, the ceiling of the church was 

 paneled lengthwise with a dark wood. Altogether — leaving 

 the chancel out of consideration — this church rather sug- 

 gested some colonial edifice of the United States. On other 

 sides of the plaza were the green-painted frame Government 

 building already referred to and the neat school for boys 

 (varones). 



Cocoanut palms occurred in other parts of the town. 

 Across the side street from the hotel was a fine group very 

 heavily laden with nuts, and near them a papaya with four 

 or more large fruits near the top of its trunk. Across the 

 railroad from us were scattered ten or fifteen coyol palms. 

 The rain prevented us from seeing much of Orotina and its 

 surroundings but there were some picturesque hills or moun- 

 tains to the north, the Aguacate Mountains, and to the 

 southeast the Turrubales. 



