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with weighty baskets or other burdens on their heads — a 

 ^^reat towering pile of crockery, or a huge bundle of 

 fir-cones, or an immense cargo of lobsters, being amongst 

 the most general articles with which they were laden ; and 

 all carried on the head, including water-jars, which they 

 bear witli as much ease and grace as do the women of 

 Egypt, and wherein they are imitated by quite little 

 children, who learn from very early years to carry jars 

 proportioned to their size and strength. 



It was with no little satisfaction that we found ourselves 

 again established beneath the hospitable roof of good 

 Mary Castro, where we soon slept away the fatigue of our 

 excursion through Minho, and I was enabled to keep my 

 engagement with Mr. Whiteley, on the following morning, 

 at the English church of Opoi'to. 



