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Market at Tenchitlan

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Tenchitlan is a miserable place where everyone seems to be too lifeless to get up an interest in anything. On Sunday, however, the country people flocked in and all along one side of the plaza the street was filled with booths or awnings of cotton cloth or mats raised on sticks under which mats were spread on the ground and upon the were displayed a great variety of fruits vegetables and food.

The [[strikethrough]] people [[/strikethrough]] men in their clean white cotton trousers and blouses with [[strikethrough]] brightly colored [[/strikethrough]] scarlet blanket or varied serape thrown over one shoulder & broad rimmed sombreros, with an occasional ranchero or vaquero with ornamental [[strikethrough]] des [[/strikethrough]] buckskin clothing - the women in calico with a black or plainly colored reboso over their heads all made a sight worth seeing. Under a poral of the stores facing the plaza next the booths was a striking display of the dull brick red pottery made & used throughout the country. The fruits &c were arranged in little piles placed