TARAHUMARI INDIANS. 179 
ans or other savages ; and I have lived 
among nine-tenths of the Indian tribes of 
the United States and a great number 
outside of our domains. Heretofore the 
Eskimo of North Hudson Bay I deemed 
the most modest of savages, but they are 
brigands compared with the Tarahumari 
natives. If they have the least intimation 
of a white man’s approach, he stands as 
little show of seeing them as if they were 
some timid animal fleeing for life. 
A Mexican gentleman who owns a part 
interest in a rich silver mine in the great 
broken Barrancas leading out from the 
Sierra Madre toward the Pacific side, or 
into the States of Sinaloa and Sonora 
(but who always reached his mine by way 
of Chihuahua), told me that he had several 
times passed over the mountain trail on 
mule-back, when with a pack train, and 
