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grants. The men are well-grown and muscular; 

 they wear little more than the breech-cloth, and 

 most of them still use the bow and arrow. The 

 squaws are short in comparison with the men, 

 and for Indians have tolerably regular features. 

 The men use no saddles, and a strange sight it is 

 to see a number of these demons nearly naked, 

 painted from their heads to their waists, all 

 colours and patterns, skying and whirling round 

 upon their half- tamed beasts, yelling and shouting, 

 with no apparent object that I could discover 

 but that of exhibiting themselves and trying to 

 frighten me. 



The morning is dark and cloudy, with a sharp 

 keen wind. Keep close to the shore of the lake, 

 which for the first fifteen miles is shut in by 

 high mountains. The trail winds along the side of 

 this mountain, in some places over bare rock, at 

 others loose rolling stones render it very danger- 

 ous and difficult to get over. Emerging on an 

 open sandy plain, about seven miles in width, we 

 cross it, still close to the lake. Then hill again, but 

 not so steep. .Reaching an open prairie covered 

 with grass, camp on a small stream, with decent 

 wood on its banks. During the whole day I was 

 beset and worried by Indians riding in among my 

 mules, galloping forward, then back again, from 



