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Rh as public porters on the highways. Men and women engage in this occupation, and they use alpen-stocks while walking. An ordinary porter will carry a load of one

hundred and fifty pounds for a distance of twenty miles daily. All kinds of merchandise are transported on the backs of porters.

During the eighteenth century the Spanish priests are said to have imported donkeys or burros in large