1892 
The market here in Celaya is held in the open street about the 
Celaya 
(Guanajuato) 
July 
principal church. Holes are made in wooden blocks which are set in 
brella is raised and covered with white cotton cloth and under this 
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shade the vendors of every imaginable thing squat, Men, women, and 
Sunday children and a ceaseless swarm of purchasers swarm back and forth 
Market 
in buying and chafferlag in a slow deliberate low-voiced manner over 
Celaya 
3 or G cents worth of this or that. Women go about with little 
baskets buying 3 cents worth of meat, several kinds of vegetables 
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in minute quantity for the same sum. Two or 3 cents of bread, and 
a few cents of bananas or other fruit and her day* s marketing is 
done, Some women are doing a good business roasting green corn 
over a clay brasier with a charcoal fire and selling it for & cent 
an oarj others are selling it boiled. 
Several of the umbrellas shelter dealers in old iron, bottles, 
and other junk and it is a motley collection of the most absurd odds 
and ends. One man ms going about trying to sell 3 large hand-made 
iron Epikes, And hundreds of men and women in picturesque but filthy 
rags were wandering about or sitting crouched up in comers. This 
was Sunday, July 3, and a specially busy market day. 
This plaoe (Celaya) is located in the oentral plain or table¬ 
land of Mexico and has suffered like the rest of that region from 
£ to 3 years of drought so that largo quantities of corn is being 
imported from the tJ.S. and sold at cost to the poor. 
Qa the night of July 4th, Mr. Pringle came in on train and on 
consultation with him I decided to give, up the trip to Chihuahua 
the present season and to continue work in central Mexico till fall. 
Got my assistant over from. Xrapu&ho and took him down to Aoaia- 
baro where X left him until my return from Mexico City where I went 
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