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I told her and she handed them to us with a look of disdain on her face. 
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Copala 
I then asked for knives and forks at which she went into the next room 
and I heard her tell Figueroa that we wished knives and forks in a tone 
of consternation at such a demand. She soon returned without them for 
no such article existed in the house, so we ate with our fingers. 
Juchitango 
The next day (9th) we went on for another long day to the village of 
Juchitango which, like San Marcos and Copala, is built about 6 or 8 
miles from the sea and contains several hundred people. 
Qmetepeo 
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On the morning of the 10th we went on and reached Qaetepee early 
in the afternoon* Nearly all the villages and the small groups of huts 
called Cuadrillas that we passed from San Marcos to Cknatepec are built 
on bare tops of low hills where they get the breeze from the sea and 
are also out of the unhealthy bottoms. Water is carried to many of 
these villages from a mile or more in earthen jars, S 0 on after leaving 
Juchitango we noticed that in the villages and ranches we passed through 
a large proportion of the houses were round with conical roofs. These 
houses like the square ones are built by setting upright poles in the 
ground close together and capping them about 7 or 8 feet from the ground 
by the roof of poles lashed together by vines or tough bark and covered 
by a thick grass thatch,* the latter being often covered with palm 
leaves. These houses have an opening left in one side for a door and 
have one or more platforms for sleeping made by extending a set of thin 
sticks fastened together in two places over the frame. On this a mat 
is spread and the bed is complete. Very commonly a hammock is hung 
Inside or outside below the shade of a shed like structure or roof on 
four posts built just outside and against the house. In the larger 
villages usually one or more square houses have tile roofs. When we 
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