1895 
Llano dr&ndo 
(Oaxaca) 
tip of a mixture of round and square jscales with a few small adobe houses. 
We had very poor service so far as food went here* as it was made up 
of a little dried meat with tortillas. The people were excessively dirty 
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and our dried meat would be set before u® on a single plate and the tor¬ 
tillas laid on a filthy fragment of cloth and so the table was reader for 
us to go ahead with the meal. The entire family including father and 
several beys* two girls of 10 and 11* and two servant women and a man 
slept in the open corridor on rude bed frames covered with stretched 
cowhide. Many of the woman went about here naked from mist up* but 
usually with a rebozo thrown about head and shoulders* 
Although oranges* bananas* and other fruits might be grown by these 
people* they are only raised in a very few instances from the indolenee 
of the people. Cotton and com* with some beans and tobaooo* are the 
crops grown. Everything Is planted by the rudest methods^ and always by 
deforesting a piece of land* every year or two at the end of the second 
crop the land has become so hard that no more crops can grow on it. 
Here we secured a number of porcupines (Svnetheres) and tried to get 
ant bears but none were secured although they occur here in sx.mll numbers. 
labile here a child of 4 or 6 years died and was laid on a board with 
paper and real flowers about her and then a fandango started and contin¬ 
ued that day* all the following night, and until the next affcernbon when 
the people left the house in procession a woman carrying the body on the 
board on top of her head and passing slowly through the village singing 
a Slav chant in company with the others. They went to the ohuroh door 
with the body and the bell under a low Shed nearby was rung a few times 
and then the procession went on new in silence to a graveyard outside 
the village where the child was buried without coffin of any kind* even 
the board on which she had been carried being brought back to the house. 
The abundance of wood on every hand left no excuse for burying in this 
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