TARA HUMARI INDIANS. 
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known to the world) have thrown a veil 
over them both dark and mysterious. 
Some tribes of no greater strength in the 
interior of Africa are better known to us 
at home than are these Tarahumaris of 
the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. 
They are now seldom seen in the city of 
Chihuahua, or even on the diligence lines 
radiating to the many western points 
which draw their supplies from this 
town ; and it is only when the mule trails 
to the deeply hidden mountain mines are 
taken that they are seen at all. Still 
better, if one cuts loose from these too, 
he will be yet more likely to find them in 
all their rugged primitiveness. Those 
usually seen by the white traveler to these 
parts are called civilized, and live in log 
huts, tilling a bit of mountain slope, not 
unlike the lower classes of Mexico, whom 
