There are about six to eight hundred people settled v;ithin a few miles of hi Rio. 
ITo town, only a shop (tienda) and a cock T)it, Beautiful and fairly fertile district. 
Less mist and fog than at 
C0ITSTAIT2A: An old settlement. 
originally an Indian site. About four 
thousand feet elevation, hills both sides valley, tv;o thousands feet higher. Valley 
drains into the Yaqui del 3ud. Lovely cool climate and pretty scenery. Pine covered 
hills all around. It is fourteen miles from FJ Rio, Road crossing the valley of 
the Tirea on the way. "^he Tirea empties into the Yuna River, The Yuna valley has 
been settled for the past fourteen years. Gonstanaa stands near the Geograx)hical 
center of San Domingo. Its v/aters drain into the Yaqui del Sud, emptying into the 
sea near Azua^af 
(jiist over a, lov; ridge) flows northeast into 
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the Yuna, while the Emenoa whose head r/aters empty five or six miles away drains in- 
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to the Yaqui del ITorte emptying near Monti Ghristi on Forth coast. Probably eight 
hundred to a thousand x^eople live near Oonstansa. The village has eighty or ninety 
houses (not all occupied however) Mostly’’ pine forests in nei^borhood. Highest 
hill in sight is El Macho or Yanilejo, as it is called on rriajj — 8,500 feet. Tina 
the highest mountain in Mest Indies, is invisible. It lies twelve to fourteen 
miles south. Scarcely any precijoices or bare rocks. Hills rounded and covered v/ith 
trees to summit. The inhabitants of the hills have imich more European blood than 
those of the Samana and the lowlands. Many look like Spaxnish peasants. Much indian 
blood is T^resent and of course more or less negro. Some of the people, especially 
women, would pass for x>oor Indians. 
SAITGKEZ:- formerly called Las Oanibas, v;here I collected during first visit to 
San Domingo in 1833. ITov; a town of about tw^o thousand five hundred inhabitants at 
the '"ortheast corner of Samana bay, the start ir:g p:iOint of the Railroad into the 
inferior. Railroad runs to La Vega, sixty-two miles distant. Samana is eighteen 
miles from Sanchez. 
