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Show INDIANS AS RUNNERS. Instances of Their Remarkablo Powers of Endurance. General Cook is quoted by Edward S. Ellis as having seen an Apache lope for 1,500 feet up the side of a mountain without showing the first signs of fatigue, fa-tigue, there being no perceptible sign of increase of respiration. Captain H. L. Scott, of the Seventh Cavalry, has related some astonishing feats performed per-formed by the Chiracahua Apaches forming Troop L of his regiment. He tells how nine of these Indians, after a hard day's work, by way of recreation recrea-tion pursued a coyote for two hours, captured the nimble brute and brought it into camp; how, on another occasion, the scouts gave chase to a deer, ran it down some nine miles from camp and Tetehed it in alive. Hence I see no good reason for doubting the word of an old-timer I met in the Rocky mountains, moun-tains, who told me that, in the days before the Atlantic and Pacific railroad rail-road was built, the Pima Indians of Arizona would recover settlers' stray horses, along the overland trail, by walking them down in the course of two or three days. After this one may begin to believe that "Lying Jim" Beckwourth, whose remarkable adventures adven-tures early in this century are preserved pre-served in book form, was a mueh-ma-ligned man and that he spoke no moro than the truth when he said ho had known instances of Indian runners accomplishing ac-complishing upward of 110 miles iu one day. Lippiucott's Magazine. |
