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Title: A year of Costa Rican natural history
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Calvert, Amelia Smith, b. 1876 Calvert, Philip Powell, b. 1871 joint author
Subjects: Natural history -- Costa Rica Costa Rica -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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ks or boughs with chinks between.Furniture was not very different, but the interior formed oneundivided room. The cooking place in this house was a bedof sand in one corner on which sticks were ignited, and potsfor boiling water or iron dishes for baking tortillas werepropped among or upon the embers. We brought most ofour breakfast with us but they gave us some very strongcoffee. The family consisted of a grandmother, her son-in-law, three granddaughters and a grandson, the mother hav-ing died. Their physical features appeared to be chieflyIndian, but in one or two of the granddaughters there wereunmistakable signs of African blood. Most of the familywere able to read, Santa Barbara, like nearly all villages inCosta Rica, having its schools for both sexes. Hardly six feet from the rear wall of this house a hole,already five feet deep, had been dug. Many Indian graveshad previously been opened within a radius of a few hundredfeet, and scattered mounds of earth indicated where they had
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