Scribner's magazine . in Indians are so fond of mice that Ihave known them to beg for permissionto look through a house for them. Theywill eat snakes, wolves, and wild is eaten raw. A laiTa foundon the branches of the madrona, in smallwhite sacks of a silky texture, isgathered, boiled, and eaten. Several kinds of berries and wildfiiiits are used by the Indians, for in-stance the red berry of the above all they value the fruit of theCereus Pithaya, which lasts for about amonth, at the height of the dry season,just when they need it most. Thisfruit is about as
Scribner's magazine . in Indians are so fond of mice that Ihave known them to beg for permissionto look through a house for them. Theywill eat snakes, wolves, and wild is eaten raw. A laiTa foundon the branches of the madrona, in smallwhite sacks of a silky texture, isgathered, boiled, and eaten. Several kinds of berries and wildfiiiits are used by the Indians, for in-stance the red berry of the above all they value the fruit of theCereus Pithaya, which lasts for about amonth, at the height of the dry season,just when they need it most. Thisfruit is about as big as an egg, green,spine-covered, its flesh soft, full of blackseeds, and very sweet and nourishing. Itgrows at a height of from fifteen to twentyfeet, and the Indian gets it down with along, pronged fork of reeds, gathering itin a reed crate which he carries on hisback. In the early morning at dawn,the Indians, men and women, start out,armed with these slender poles, climb-ing the ridges with grace and agility, to. 450 TARAHUMARI DANCES AND PLANT-WORSHIP get the pithava, which is better i^iokedat this hour than in the middle of theday. I found it excellent with taste is between that of a tig and aplum. The Mexican servants considerit so great a delicacy that they oftenabscond duiing the pithaya season inorder to obtain it.
Size: 1258px × 1986px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1887
