Crossword-Solution: HENEQUEN 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Attention is being turned to the cultivation of _henequen_, which has given favourable results in the neighbouring state of Yucatan.

This desolate region, nevertheless, affords the main source of wealth of the state, and that for which it has become famous, the _henequen_, or Sisal hemp, the valuable fibre-producing plant which grows there in millions.

Generally they train their children from a very early age to help in their agricultural labor such as their forefathers did before the conquest, or else they teach them light manual labor, such as weaving little mats or matting in general, making small bags, baskets of all kinds and sizes, leather bands such as are used by the native porters, sacks, hammocks, ropes, to prepare henequen from agave fiber, to make straw hats, and so forth.

Two or three roughly-woven hammocks of henequen, a machete, perchance a hoe, perhaps a hatchet, and, very rarely, a poor shotgun, are all his furniture.

Fifteen to twenty yards of cotton cloth for the man's clothes, for the wife's, and for the children's, which costs a real per yard, supposing the woman does not spin and weave this herself; two or three coarse needles, a reel of cotton thread, a straw hat, sandals, a handkerchief and a cotton belt; a large straw basket or hamper, a _mecapal_, and a sack of henequen, complete the list.