1892 
Hacienda 
San Antonio 
(Colima) 
Mar* 28 
to 
Mar* 29 
Tie.of 
Colima 
(Colima) 
Mar. SO 
another set of flowers if the stems are left in place. The picking 
is don© mainly by women and girls who get IS cents for a basket 
holding about a bushel* This is a good dey*s work to Judge by the 
lots brought in at night. ladders are used to pick berries on the 
larger trees. The tree blossoms at 2nd year, and requires a year 
to mature fruit. Coffee can be grown here without irrigation, but 
the plants do better and make a heavier yield when irrigated during 
the dry season. >>• 
The soil on this plantation is wholly of volcanic origin, tufa, 
ashes and lavas forming a finely disintegrated mass on which is the 
surface element ©f decayed vegetation from the vigorous growth of 
trees and plants. 
The coffee bushes have dark, glossy, green leaves contrasting 
beautifully with the red berr3.es. 
Rancho del Balcon. Returned to Rancho del Saloon. On the way 
back to town 1 passed through a small Indian settlement where they 
live exactly as do the poorer classes of Mexicans, At one place 
they had some kind of a dance in progress in honor of a birthday* 
It consisted of a shuffling of the feet in time to the music of a 
couple of guitars and a harp, all of the rudest construction. The 
men stood in a roar 4 or 5 facing several women at a yard or so dis¬ 
tant, and both sides stood with arms hanging loosely down while the 
only motion of the body was when a dancer would at times turn around 
in his place. Otherwise, the whole affair was extremely lifeless 
and wanting in expression. The faces of the dancers all wore a 
solemn unsmiling expression* The dancing was going on under a little 
grass shelter in front of a grass hut and the dancers feet clad in 
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