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and undergoing a whipping ; but this the principal citizens 
prayed me to suppress. 
Misdemeanors or faltas. 
Males. 
Females. 
Ladinos. 
Indios. 
Read. 
Write. 
Unedu¬ 
cated. 
Single. 
Mariied 
Against public order . . 
3,680 
740 
1,679 
2,520 
170 
496 
3,466 
1,861 
2,276 
“ municipal law 
146 
13 
111 
38 
8 
29 
87 
69 
55 
“ persons .... 
933 
393 
832 
387 
34 
157 
879 
620 
453 
“ property . . . 
152 
31 
141 
42 
3 
20 
144 
107 
41 
“ military discipline 
87 
21 
16 
5 
5 
27 
13 
24 
4,948 
1,177 
2,784 
3,003 
220 
707 
4,603 
2,674 
2,849 
A notable fact in regard to punishments in Guatemala 
is their publicity. In New England every effort is made 
to conceal criminals from public gaze; the punishment 
which is intended to deter others from a similar act is, 
foolishly enough, merely a matter of hearsay to the bulk 
of the population. A silly sentimentality bides the con¬ 
victs in prisons better and more commodious than the 
homes of a majority of the people, feeds them with suffi¬ 
cient and wholesome food, and in general wastes more 
pity on them than it vouchsafes to the honest poor, 
and all this at the expense of innocent citizens ! In 
Guatemala I examined many prisons, finding them all 
open to inspection. The passer-by can see through the 
grated door of the carcel all the prisoners within. 
When finally sentenced, the criminals are put upon the 
public roads and set to work under guard and chained, so 
that every one may be reminded that the 66 way of trans¬ 
gressors is hard.” In the prisons they sleep on mats, and 
receive from the Government a real (twelve and a half 
cents) a day, with which to buy food. In the new pris¬ 
ons all the modern improvements are introduced, and 
