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can have some show to compete with 
other districts. Corn is very prolific, 
coffee produces well, tobacco is of fine 
flavor, and oranges, guavas, bananas, and 
INDIAN WOMAN GRINDING CORN. 
plantains are plentiful and of rich flavor ; 
but transportation on a pack mule for ioo 
or 200 miles is too uncertain as to condi¬ 
tion of delivery, and too certain as to ex¬ 
orbitant price, to encourage their culti¬ 
vation beyond local needs of a limited 
