We traded for some trifles of aloe-fibre, but soon had to count up the reckoning with beans.
I have delayed long enough for the present over the Indians and their market; so, though there is much more to be said about them, I will only add a few words respecting the commodities for sale, and then leave them for awhile.
There seemed to be a large business doing in costales (bags) made of aloe-fibre, for carrying ore about in the mines.

True to the traditions of his ancestors, the Indian much prefers putting his load in a bag on his back, to the far easier method of wheeling it about.

Lazos sold at one to four reals, (6d.

to 2s.) according to quality.

There are two kinds of aloe-fibre; one coarse, _ichtli_, the other much finer, _pito_; the first made from the great aloe that produces pulque, the other from a much smaller species of the same genus.