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tropical diseases in Central America ? The last time an 
official census was taken, Livingston had a population of 
a thousand, in round numbers, and the deaths of the 
year numbered seven, — one a centenarian, and two 
youths who fell from coconut-trees and broke their 
necks; while in Boston the rate for July, 1885, was 
28.1 per thousand. 
The objection to being among a strange people and 
under a foreign government and strange laws may best 
be met by^ following me through the country, where my 
object w r as to answer these very objections for myself; 
and if my readers will patiently follow me, I will tell 
what I saw, and they may form their own opinions. 
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