| 1. Water Carrier of Malaga. | 4. Water Carrier of Guaymas. |
| 2. Pongo. | 5. French Water Carrier. |
| 3. Water Carrier of Mexico. | 6. Arabian Woman at the Fountain. |
VARIOUS METHODS OF CARRYING WATER.
In other parts of Europe, and in this continent too, the water is carried about by men and women.
In the opposite picture you may see how some of these water-carriers supply their customers.
In Malaga a jaunty Spaniard with a cigar in his mouth, and two jars of water hanging from his shoulders and arms, walks up and down the streets selling the precious fluid at so much a quart or a pint.
In Pongo the water is conveyed in a great leathern jar on the back of a stout, bare-legged fellow who carries a long funnel, so that he can pour the water into the pitcher and pails without taking his jar from his shoulders.
In parts of Mexico the jars are fastened to broad straps which pass around the water-carrier’s head, while in Guaymas, the carrier has no load at all himself, but puts two great skins of water on the back of a little donkey.
The French water-carrier has a stick on his shoulders with a pail of water on each end; and when one shoulder is tired he can shift his load to the other, which is, perhaps, the next best thing to having a donkey.
But the water-carriers of Arabia and Egypt, who very often are women, are the most graceful and in some respects the most sensible of all. They carry their jar of water on their heads.
As this makes it necessary for them to keep themselves very erect, it gives them fine, straight figures, and a graceful walk. The disadvantage of their plan is that they cannot carry very much water at a time.