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Show World's Champion Weight Carrier. Tho Armenian porters of Constantinople Constan-tinople are believed to bo tho champion cham-pion weight carriers of tho world. Thoy have- been known for centurloa as "hamals" I. o., camels. But whllo a camol Is heavily burdened at 300 pounds for a day's march, theBo men, according to general belief, quoted in Curzon's "Armenia," will carry for a short dlstanco, probably from ship to shoro, as much as GOO pounds. Thoro is a well-attested story of a "hamal" having been seen in tho streets of Constantinople with a grand piano on his back. |