CHIHUAHUA WESTWARD. 17 1 
hidden from view, toward the entrance 
to a cave in a huge bowlder. I called 
the attention of my Mexican companion 
to him, and he said he was only one of 
the wilder Tarahumari Indians, who lived 
in this manner, and that I would see 
enough of them before I finished my 
journey. This was my first introduction 
to a strange people hidden away in 
those grand old mountains, and of which 
the world has known comparatively noth¬ 
ing. 
