At all events, the fact that a wild people, living isolated in the mountains, should have made such progress in the science of smelting, is of so great interest that a description of their procedure by Santos (essentially only a repetition of an earlier account by Hernandez, in the Revista Minera, i. 112) will certainly be acceptable.

Revista Puertoriqueña, Año II, tomo II.]

Revista Puertoriqueña, vols.

Alexander Infiesta, in an article on the subject published in the Revista in February, 1888, states, that according to the latest census there were 399,674 females in the island, of whom 293,247 could neither read nor write, 158,528 of them being white women and girls.

Revista Puertoriqueña, Año II, tomo II, p. 7.]

FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 89: Revista Puertoriqueña, Tomo I, Año I, 1887.]