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Show GREAT FEAT OF RUNNER. Covered Six Hundred Miles In Five Days Over the Roughest Kind of Country. The Tarahumares, a great tribe of tho northern Sierra Mad re, are the greatest runners on eijrth, not In regard re-gard to speed but In endurance. They havo been known to nverage 170 miles per dny; thero Is an absolute record that Is indisputable of a Tarahumare sent with an Important government document that necessitated an Immediate Imme-diate answer covering the distance there and back, C00-mllo Jaunt, In five days, or an average of 120 miles covered cov-ered In each 24 hours, not counting tho time lost while the answer was bolng prepared, nnd It must be re-memborcd re-memborcd that this feat was not performed per-formed upon a fair road or on an undulating un-dulating plain. It was over tho wildest wild-est country that the Sierra Madro affords; af-fords; up and down paths that the very deer would hardly esteem a trial; the only level ground encountered was the crossing of a deep river. Also, the Journey was ilono on "pinole," a species of popcorn ground down nnd mixed with water, nnd the runner carried car-ried his camp equipment, a native woven whlto wool blanket. |
