3§4 CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
rest. The Indian who won this race, al¬ 
though tired, finished in good shape, and 
took in about fifty dollars in stock.” 
These contests in running are said to 
be one of the amusements of even the 
wildest of the Tarahumaris, although 
I doubt whether many white men have 
witnessed them. Even as early as the 
days when Grijalva, the discoverer of 
Mexico, and Cortes, its conquerer, 
landed on its shores where now is the 
important port of Vera Cruz, within 
twenty-four hours after their appear¬ 
ance an Aztec artist had made perfect 
representations of the fleet, the kind 
and amount of armament, and correct 
pictures of the artillery and horses 
(although he had never seen such things 
before), and had transmitted them nearly 
two hundred miles by carrier to the City 
