BURDEN BEARERS of amazing strength and endurance, the 

 Quechuas go to market carrying huge earthen ollas, bags of 

 grain, ricks of firewood or any salable product which affords 

 them excuse to visit the city on the day of the feria, which is 

 their market day. In Riobamba the carnival day is Saturday. 

 At such times there may be 20,000 Indians in the city. Like a 

 midwest county fair, it is an event the natives would not miss 

 for anything. Some travel fifteen or twenty miles afoot. 



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