SWEATING FOR NEURALGIA —THE CHIMARIKO. 93 
of them became a prey to the birds and the beasts. So they went like a 
little wisp of fog, no bigger than a man’s hand, on the top of a mountain, 
when the sun comes up in the morning, and they are all gone. 
Living so far up the Trinity as they did, toward the great family of 
Wintiin, on the Sacramento, they showed a trace of Winttin influence in 
that they doubled up a corpse into a bunch to bury it. Their doctors were 
like the Wintiin, too, in sucking the patient for many ailments, especially 
for snake-bites. 
But their panacea was the sweat-house. Mr. White relates that he once 
ventured an experiment in one of these sweating-dungeons out of curiosity 
and in despair over a neuralgia, for the healing of which he had suffered 
many things of many physicians, and had spent all that he had, and was 
nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. The first time he was well-nigh 
suffocated by the dense and bitter smudge made by the green wood. Tor 
two hours he lay with his face pressed close to the ground, with a wet 
handkerchief over his nostrils (the Indians purposely build the fire close to 
the door, so that they cannot escape until it burns down), and it was a 
wonder to himself that he lived through it. But he was so much benefited 
that he made a second trial of it, and was quite cured. 
We have seen that the branch living on the Trinity are called Chi- 
mariko. I have above intimated my belief that these represent the true 
Californians, while the Hupiare Athabascan. As far as the Hupa ascended 
the river we find the redwood canoe, but no farther. The Chimariko never 
had the enterprise to get one up over the falls in the canon at New River 
Mountain, and no redwoods grow in their own territory. Hence they 
crossed the river on willow baskets, holding them under their breasts and 
propelling themselves with their feet and hands. 
It is related that their hunters, when they went out to lie in ambush 
near salt-licks and other springs, were accustomed to smear their bows and 
arrows with yerba buena, to prevent the deer from detecting the human odor, 
and that when they took this precaution they generally had good success. 
The oak mistletoe was occasionally smoked by these Indians in lieu of 
tobacco. 
In the early days, before the mining operations filled up the Trinity, 
