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Yalalag 
The Mije men are wild looking fellows with broad homespun trousers 
of white cotton doth reaching between knee and ankle and flapping 
about as they walk. A short shirt reaching but little below the waist, 
and sandals, made up most of the costume. Son® wore small crowned hats 
of leather having wide straight riras. Others had black felt hats of 
the same form. Like the Zapotecos they have slight beards of straggling 
ehin hairs, in many cases. 
The marketing was going on with a constant buzzing of chaffering 
and gossiping among the people, Under the shade of a large tree were 
sellers of dry salted meat® cut in small string like bunches and be- 
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side them two or three men with rude axes were cutting up a freshly kill¬ 
ed beef or cutting off long strips of flesh. Fruits, vegetables, corn, 
beans, serapes, rebozos, cotton eloth and prints, raw cotton, hats, 
sandals, maguey fibre cords and ropes were among the varied articles be¬ 
ing sold. Everything seemed to have been brought in on the backs of the 
people and was sold from hampers or small mats spread on the ground. 
The people doing the buying were mainly women who went about often In 
groups of 2 to 3 or 4 and squatted on their haunches while chaffering 
with the sellers constantly referring to one another and handling over 
nearly all of the stock every time before buying a few cents* worth of 
material of any kind. The town is situated on a steep hillslope which 
is terraced to afford a level building spot for the houses and yards. 
On asking from the President® the service of a moso for the trip, 
he showed the same unaccountable reluctance shown by the two others I 
had recently mat. He as sirred me that I could only hire men here to go 
on to my next stopping place. I finally got ray packer, who oame from 
San Miguel, to go on with me and the Prosidente brought 2 Mlje Indians 
around in the p,m. saying that they were willing to pack my stuff a day 
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