Note XXIX-5 — Chapter XXIX · THE PEOPLE OF HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA. 1800-1887.
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Leaving out the dignified and courteous members of the old and wealthy families, the people show a strange mixture of politeness, simplicity, shrewdness, and effrontery, and above all, an indescribably passive indifference of countenance. Wells' Hond., 202-3.