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dark brown. 
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As a mle their noses are straight with rather rounded and thick 
and somewhat flattened ends and alas,- a small proportion of them have 
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aquiline noses and. 3cmc faces arc strangely like a typical Sioux count¬ 
enance, but these ere rare. These people do trading with those of the 
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Interior, All products from this part of Oaxaca and adjacent part of 
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Guerrero are shipped from the Bay of Tcooanapa at tho mouth of the Rio 
Sta, Catarina in Guerrero, 
iThile we were here at Pinotepa the Secretary of the Munieipio told 
m© that a band of 6 bend its has boon robbing for some time on the roads 
of the coast country but although many efforts hare been made to get 
thorn, they haw failed. Recently about BOO men mad© an unsuccessful 
search for them. The same man said that when bandits are captured in 
bhis district tho Jefe now in office orders them hung although by law 
the death penalty is abolished in this state. 
In March, 1894, the Jefe Politico of this district (Jemiltapee) was 
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assassinated ly bandits While riding through a canon. The present Jefe 
has used the bandits with great severity and as a remit the distriot 
is greatly Improved, Before the present Jefe they tell me that horses 
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and other animals were stolen from the town of Pinotepa at night and 
sometimes «m corrals in town had to be gii&rded, Since robbing began 
to be raw ardod by hanging the people have become much more hone st, 
At Llano Grande, whieh is also in this distriot, I was told the some 
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thing. The Presidente of Pinotepa told me that from sometime in April, 
1894, to the present tin©, February 22, 1895, the Jefe has had killed 
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about 25 bandits. Although the death penalty is abolished by law in 
Oaxaca, It is only by ouch methods that the country can be governed. 
During ay stay at Pinotepa I have lived in the municipal building 
or town hall and have load a chance to see what is going on. The town 
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