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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