1892 
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Manzanillo 
(Colima) 
Feb* 1 
to 
Feb. 3 
Feb. 3 
to 
Feb. 14 
are employed and sing many songs while at work, with very pleasing 
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voiees. 
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At the hotel table some curious manners are exhibited,- or rather 
their lack. Che day at noon, a man sat at table with his wife, and 
wore his huge sombrero throughout the meal as did another man at the 
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ether end of table. Both men appeared to belong to the middle classes 
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At the close of a meal, it is a common thing for the men (who are 
clerks, etc., in stores and offices here) to take a mouthful of water 
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and after rinsing their mouth to spit it out upon the floor while they 
sometimes complete their toilet by wiping their teeth and gums on the 
border of the tablecloth. Cigarettes are smoked at will by the guests 
while at table. 
As an offset to this may be mentioned the common custom of guests on 
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entering the dining room to pass the compliments of the hour to the 
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guests preceding him, to which all reply politely? and the first guests 
to leave the room bid the ethers good-day, which salute is returned. 
At the hotel, one woman is occupied most of the time in grinding 
wheat on a stone mortar by hand, while another stands before a knead¬ 
ing trough and makes tortillas by the hour. These leathery cakes are 
the main bread used though a variety of small sweet cakes are used 
with coffee and chocolate. Pure Colima coffee of very fine flavor is 
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used here. 
Vicinity of Manzanillo. On the 14th I arranged matters and 
took the train out about 8 miles south of town to Tepeloate, a small 
ranch by the R.R. traok on the border of the lagoon. The train 
stopped and let us off in the midst of the tangle of thorny brush 
which borders the traok all along this strip of flat country on the 
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