382 CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
ing foot runners in all the great band of 
the Tarahumaris (or tribe of “ foot 
runners,” as we know they are called) 
was a contestant^ That summer he had 
made one hundred Spanish miles—about 
ninety of ours—in eleven hours and 
twenty minutes, in a great foot contest 
near the Bacochic River, resting but once 
for half an hour in this terribly long race. 
The man, Mr. Thomas Ewing by name, 
told me that he attempted to run this 
foot runner a vuelta , (which is six miles 
straight away and return, or twelve miles 
altogether), Ewing using a horse ; and 
although the white man tried this three 
times with three different horses, the 
Tarahumari cave dweller beat him each 
time. These contests of the Tarahumaris 
are almost always very long and excit¬ 
ing. They make their bets with stock 
