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erants. Themenare 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. Ieep 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 
