1895 
Llano Grand© 
(Oaxaca) 
Pinotepa del 
Estado 
•way except for the excessive indolence of these people. They are eas¬ 
ily excited to brutality and have the reputation of being readily hired 
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to do murder. Two of the negroes of this section were hired a few months 
since to assassinate Mr. Miller at Guajinicuilapa, and shot at him twice 
without succeeding. They had nothing against him and it was supposed 
that the attempt was made by a neighbor who objected to Miller's owning 
land and fencing it where he had desire to let his cattle run. 
During our stay here two or three slight earthquakes were noticed. 
On the 19th we left and proceeded 24 miles further to the town of 
Pinotepa del Estado. % horse was very lame and had to be led. Here a 
blacksmith fixed its hoof and said it would recover in a few days, so 
we are forced to another aggravating delay. 
Pinotepa has about 2000 people and is a straggling town on an irregu¬ 
lar SW slope. Its main business is with the cotton crop of the low 
lands and stock raising, A considerable number of white-washed adobe 
houses are found along the winding, irregular main street along which 
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the highway to Oaxaca passes. There is a telegraph office, post office, 
and several stores here. The people are mainly Mixtecos or mixed bloods 
of Spanish descent. Eegroes and their strains are very few but are said 
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to be numerous on the lowlands near the coast. 
The Indians here speak a dialect of the liixteco which varies very 
little from that of the interior. This section forms a part of the 
Mixteca baja. The people (Indians) still wear here their ancient cost¬ 
umes. The men a pair of wide cotton trousers fastened at the waist by 
’ ’ : ’ dyed a butternut brown 
a scarf and a short jacket of drilling or heavy cotton cloth/ This 
jacket has no collar and comes down to the upper edge of the trousers 
so that the body of the wearer about the waist becomes exposed at almost 
every movement. Fastened to the upper border of the jacket behind are 
two little tassels of colored threads of some shade of red. The people 
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