A PRIMITIVE NATION.
Tlie new Mexican inter-oceanic railway across the Tehuantepec Isthmus is marked out to pass through the State of Chiapas, which probably contains the only population in the world which possesses no iron, nor anything in the shape of an iron industry, even of the crudest form. For the distance of 80 miles round Palenque, the capital, not a single blacksmith can be found, and the only articles in the shape of iron are axes and macbetas, imported from the United States. Nails are Unknown, all the woodwork being held together by cord or the tendrils of the vines, and even the tortilla is prepared by grinding the maifce between stones. The new railway which will ruu through this territory has clearly a welldefined educational, as well as commercial development to undertake.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1082, 19 March 1880, Page 3
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134A PRIMITIVE NATION. Kumara Times, Issue 1082, 19 March 1880, Page 3
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