While travelling with such burdens they eat nothing but pinole, a little at frequent intervals.
The wonderful health these people enjoy is really their most attractive trait.

They are healthy and look it.

It could hardly be otherwise in this delightful mountain air, laden with the invigorating odour of the pines combined with the electrifying effect of being close to nature's heart.

In the highlands, where the people live longer than in the barrancas, it is not infrequent to meet persons who are at least a hundred years old.

Long life is what they all pray for.
They suffer sometimes from rheumatism, but the most common disease is pleurisy (_dolor de costado_), which generally proves fatal.