Note XXVIII-38 — Chapter XXVIII · THE PEOPLE OF COSTA RICA, NICARAGUA, AND SALVADOR. 1800-1887.
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Being a compact population, and constantly thrown into the company of one another through family or business relations, a certain fraternity became established, and the practice obtained of calling each other hermano and hermanitico at every meeting. Astaburuaga, Cent. Am., 52-3. Owing to that practice, the Costa Ricans have been nicknamed hermaniticos.