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Hacienda 
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Capricho 
other village* After they have lived together as man and wife some 
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time, the man goes to the father of the girl and asks his pardon for 
having taken his daughter and this is granted* Then the bride earns 
back and a dance is given at expense of groom in the house of bride*s 
parents* Should the girl not wish to go, and the man desire her, then 
he goes to her house suddenly with a number of companions and while 
some keep off the father or brother®, others carry off the woman by 
force* If the father or brothers are present or about when a woman is 
being taken, it is the proper etiquette for them to attack the lover 
and his friends with their machetes. For this reason the latter usually 
go in force enough to overpower ary resistance. 
Cotton sells at the gin here for S cents a pound uncleaned, and the 
cleaned cotton is worth 12^, The seed has no value although a soap 
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factory is just starting near here. Small cotton gins are working all 
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over the coast country in this part of Guerrero and adjacent parts of 
Oaxaca, Mr, Charles A, Miller and Luis Mendes both Americans (P.0. 
Ckaetepec) are large land owners here* Mr, Mendes told me that he had 
purchased land amounting to 180 square miles for about $20,000. The 
damp river bottoms are utilized in the dry season for corn and Para 
Grass, During the rains they are overflowed over most of their surface* 
Cotton is grown on parts above high water mark* 
Tigers are reported to occur here rather commonly in the rooky hills 
on which a low growth of brush and trees is found. Saw several pheasants 
like the Penelope taken in Vera Crus, 
During the time of our stay at the Hacienda, from 12th to 15th, 
several slight earthquakes were felt and were always aocosmpanied by a 
dull rumbling sound which was always heard in advance of the shook and 
ended with it* On one or two occasions the noise was heard without 
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perceptible shook* 
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