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on the: way to the; market 



The little Indian girls are on their way to the morning market in the isthmian city of 

 Tehuantepec. They may have carried these heavy baskets of maize upon their heads for miles 

 and thought nothing of it, for the Indians of Tehuantepec are famed for their burden-carrying 

 ability. 



