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4_156 Kern Canon They told me very much about the Indians and their habits. Also a story: The Indians about Lone Pine & Independence in olden days made a daily house to house canvas for breakfast thus getting six or seven meals. A party of mining experts encamped in Owen's Valley generously fed an Old Indian but soon their wonder grew at the amount of food he consumed. Soon the matter became serious to these transients but filled with the scientific spirit they resolved to experiment. Having as they |
4_157 July 25, 1900. thought a super fluity of dried apples they began the next morning, the menu with this fruit. The Indian stolidly ate and ate, never saying "enough". At last wearied they gave him two very large cups of coffee. Then the Indian went away. It is a far cry from the San Francisco music halls to the desert but they said that the Indian "never came back." - Mrs. Harvey's loco plant of the Kern mentioned 2 pp. back (See p. 155) is [Hosackia] Torreyi, of which I collected specimens at Round Meadow. I noticed that our mules would not eat it in King's River Canon. |
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