Field journal of Heller, March to April 1915
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an orange plantation were a few Jamaica maggots had charge, The oranges were large sized but green, A sour sap was also in fruit as well as, a zapote & several passion flower vines. We then went alongway up the river road beyond the zone but not out of it nearly as the U.S. got. reserve all the land within 13 feet above the level of the manipatable streams & they allow no huts or villages to be built without their stamp. We went as far as a village at the forks the main river where it was quite narrow & the current swift. At the RR Bridge on the Shaygoe we met a native who had a large & guynar cow for sale, he had killed the animal while it was eating a calf, he had killed