Scribner's magazine . d of bead-quarters where, on coming back fromtours lasting from two to five months, IAvould store the collections made, andwhere I also kept a small stock of trad-ing material. Besides tbe Indians I havegenerally bad one or two Mexicans withme, who took care of tbe mules andalso acted as interpreters. On two oc-casions I took only Indians because twaof them understood some Spanish. Dur-ino- the later months of mv stav I foundit difficult to secure even corn enoughto supj^ort myself and my men. As Ihave already said, tbe country has suf-fered from drought for three consecu
Scribner's magazine . d of bead-quarters where, on coming back fromtours lasting from two to five months, IAvould store the collections made, andwhere I also kept a small stock of trad-ing material. Besides tbe Indians I havegenerally bad one or two Mexicans withme, who took care of tbe mules andalso acted as interpreters. On two oc-casions I took only Indians because twaof them understood some Spanish. Dur-ino- the later months of mv stav I foundit difficult to secure even corn enoughto supj^ort myself and my men. As Ihave already said, tbe country has suf-fered from drought for three consecu-tive years, tbe croj^s failing or provinginsufficient. In many places tbe In-dians border upon a state of would sometimes cost me a wholedays work to secure as much as one al-mud of maize, tbat is, exactly enoughfor four men to eat in one day. These Indians are difficult to study, a&they are very shy and timid, and, with atrue Indian trait of character, extremehdistrustful of strangers. In Cusarare,. DRAWN BY V. Fil Narrow Gorge in the Barranca de San Carlos. 42 AMOXG THE TARAHUMARIS in the month of March, T\hen we werephotographinof them dunng the processof their peculiar administration of jus-tice by flogging, they submitted to begazed at and to have their picturestaken, without, of course, imderstand-ing what it all meant. Our interpreterS23oke well for us, and we separatedaj^parently fiiends. Their minds had,however, become uneasy, and messen-gers were sent in eveiy direction withwords of warning against some whitepeople behaving in a strange manner,and probably bent uj^on taking theircountry, as there was a great numberof them. Later on, in May, we were staying inYoquibo, a good way farther south, andwe had one day taken out from a cavefour skulls, which had been left lyingnear my tent. The Indians did not trustus very far, and it was only with thegreatest difficulty that a guide could besecured. At last an elderly man hadbeen found wiUing to go with us. At
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