252 OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE FOREST. 



fierce and jealous race. The different tribes hate 

 each other, and never meet except to fight. 



They are so suspicious, that when a tribe 

 marches over a sandy district, they tread in each 

 other's steps, and the Indians who are last in the 

 file take care to obliterate all trace of footmarks. 



They do this lest another tribe should find out 

 where they are gone, and be upon their track. 



In these forests are a tribe of earth -eating 

 Indians. Their huts are stored with round balls, 

 that look like dumplings, and, indeed, form part 

 of the larder. But the dumplings are made of an 

 oily kind of clay hat the Indian relishes ex- 

 tremely. 



He does not, as was once supposed, eat this 

 strange food from necessity, but from choice. 

 You could not offer him anything more to his 

 taste. 



The hut of the Indian is sometimes floored with 

 wood. 



There are trees in the forest, strange as it may 

 seem, that cannot be made to burn. The Indian 

 knows which trees they are, and he uses them for 



