1892 
Manzanillo 
(Colima) 
Jan, 23 
to 
Jan, 31 
a revolver and the heavy bush knife (machete) like a short sword is 
also commonly slung to the saddle bow on the left side. 
The town is a sleepy little place which shows a little activity in 
the early morning when the women are out marketing with small baskets 
about sunrise and in the cool hours from sunset to 9 p,m, when people 
stroll about chattering, laughing, and apparently enjoying life in a 
happy-go-lucky way. 
The porters engaged in loading or unloading vessels here earn con¬ 
siderable money during their short periods of occupation so that this 
place is better supplied with money among the lower classes than most 
small places. 
There appears to be very little drunkenness though the fiery 
Tequila or mescal brandy is abundantly supplied at 3/ a glass at very 
many shops and booths, 
A curious thing to a person accustomed to the large signs displayed 
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by stores and shops in our country is the almost entire absence of 
signs here. In this town the only plaees where there are signs are 
over the doors of the municipal offices. 
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A pretty, neatly kept little square grown up with cocoanut palms 
and various flowering plants is an unexpected sight here in a town of 
this size. Ho American village of the same size that I have ever seen 
has its equal. Each morning the cross-walks are swept by a man whose 
duty it is to attend to it. Prisoners from the jail under guard sweep 
the streets every morning and the refuse is taken out of town in a cart. 
The streets are paved with cobble stones wedged together and pre¬ 
senting a roughly plan© surface eloping to the middle to form a drain¬ 
age way to the sea. Slightly raised sidewalks are found paved in the 
same way, or with flagging. The oobble stones are sometimes divided 
into bands by regular lines of stones laid in parallel rows across the 
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