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as public porters on the highways. Men and women engage in this occupation, and they use alpen-stocks while walking. An ordinary porter will carry a load of one
Mexican Porters.
hundred and fifty pounds for a distance of twenty miles daily. All kinds of merchandise are transported on the backs of porters.[1]
During the eighteenth century the Spanish priests are said to have imported donkeys or burros in large num-
- ↑ The author saw an Indian carrying a large sofa on the road from the City of Mexico to Cuernavaca. It was fastened to his body by means of ropes and straps passing across his breast and forehead, and extending under his arms.
