The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-08-15
MORT REMARKABLE INDIANs.

They Live in n Desert without wster-They
Walk Hundreds Of Miles without Stop
pIng-Seven Of Them Fat Big ID nd
Horse, Bones and All, In Nineteen Hours
Weston, Judge McQuadc, aud the Big
Judge Nowhere.
From ne ana California.
Capt. John Moss, Superintendent OF the ilu,e
Mining COMPANY, IL utilizing the labor OF the flu.e
| diHns. and has about twenty Of them constantly
employed at various work. witnessed ther hp p
will much interest. They work with nlactiiy. Ike
children so long AZ they lure rapid movement
ciriine think thew win make good and profitable
lahorole. The are paid a. cents day' ana noafu;
IL is curious and picturesque sight TO see 'ne ~
work. ,..-,, .. ,At.
naiin Of Indians ne well n over all the tribes Ior
the distance Of thousand miles north ana sou'n'
west Of the sierra Nevada rnnge OF mountains; .
lie /, Altogether a remarkable Character lie u
wprshiCrej by the Indians, and WIN tIem ms WI
l. az the hat OF superior creature lie mas neeh
among the Indians Tor twelN yehrs uhu nIno.g
those Of the Great Bisin wcst o. the Sierra NeVaca
monnain, twelve years ne spea AK t"fmMWo
cvcryll ing, and is besides, man OF TALENT refine
4 LARGE faction NJ the riute tribe o. Indians live
on the Great American Desert, a region about 1000
miles long from north TO south and about 3JO miles
wide from east to west There are this desert
stretches OF 100 miles without grass water. II Ia
region Of sand ana rocky mountains. With but
little vegetation and tus NJ a peculiar stuutef char.
ucter. Here aud there, at distant intervals there Is
little wood, little grass, and a little water pro-
cured IRON holes. A running stream is almost un
in the air that tnc solar heat il fearful In Its IN
tensity, ranging from isD to iG0 degrees fahrenheit
This is the home o. tue Desert Indian" and some
facts exhibiting his nature, habits and pceuaries,
may be Interesting tn your readers.
the eopniyv NO inhsIJis a, the iiIs,J or thc horned
frog. lie Is hollow checked thin 1.-the and active
His necessities have rendered him sunerior In en-;
dutance, quicknoss s1gaciy, and intelligence 10 Hl
| neiehboring tribes. Two months ago Desert
| Indian carrying express, travelled 100 miles in
| TWENTY-FIVE consecutive hours.
| Their upper pNtrcmiteS slender thew
carry scarce any flesh Tut tat employed 10 locnmO'
| ton Their lie las Impressed upon them a won.
| dcriul physiology; their capacity to eat and 70
starve is Truly astounding. Six months ago. seven
Indians, including child six wears old, ate horse
that had persisted from drinking alkaline water
| which weighed not less than one thousand pounds
from o'clock in the afternoon to 10 o'eork on th'
| morning Of the succeeding dav-ntestines, heart
| liver, lungs and all even tire bones were crushed
| and the marrow taken from them. In short, at II
O'Clock next day nothing remained OF the horse bu
the hoofs. SO In less than twentS-iour hours thel
consumed, per capita, more than one hundred pound
| OF meat.
Another instance shout year AGO, q gentlemaI
driving a number OF horses across the desert los
tlnr'i OF ITEM at intervals, along the road part
fatal to the horses, and devoured every one OF then
as they went, coming ont on toe other .ide OF tn
ing heat of the desert from seventy TO eighty mie
day without difficulty
| 1t would seem that the Piute tribe 81 indians ar
In process OF and natural determination
independent Of any destructive effects from eontac
with civilization.
The statistics OF Europe and America procured 4
the most accurate manner and on the largest scale
give, OF all the births u boys to every 20 girls b
uniformity Is complete, rigid, and unvarytng. For
LumJer Of years past. in the Pluto tribe, from care
iul investigation, II has been acertained that thre
boys born TO every girl Eycrv where - observe
great deficiency Of squaws among them. II
mathematical at this rate. that Gro long tie f1ui
tribe will become extinct from inherent causes.
For tie last six Years the Desert Indians" ha,
found II exceedingly difficult to exist Hare an
rabbits their great sources OF lood aud at on
time they lsirly swarmed among the sage and stnn
ed vegetation Of the desert. They were invaded
| some ten years since, BY some epidemic disease,
| that nov only lew remain,