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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A Tarahumari Woman. was a narrow one, on a ridge sparinglywooded with oak and pines, the race-course being a narrow strip on the topof the ridge. We were eight thousandfeet high, and commanded a superbview of the country on all sides ;Baborigami, in the land of the Tepe-huanes, could be seen. The race provedto be only a small affair, some ninetypersons—men, women, and children—
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Making the Wagets. from different parts of the country, be-ing present. One race—the old mens—was finished, and preparations weregoing on for the most im2)ortant eventof the meeting, the race of the youngmen. We camped by a big stone, andput some goats meat that we hadbrought with us in our pot to cookover the fire. We could see that oursupply of fresh meat made a favorableimpression upon the Indians. I joinedtheir groups and found them makingtheir wagers upon the race, the bet-ting, as in civilized comnumities, ex-citing more interest than the sportitself. These peoi)le were poor, but theywagered their bows and arrows, girdles,blankets, clothes. head-l)ands, balls ofwool, cotton-cloth, beads, and sticksof ari. The ari is the secretion of aplant-louse (aphis) which is eaten bythe Indians. It is gathered from thebranches down in the l)arrancas in Julyand August, and rolled by hand intothick brown sticks, and thus preserved304 for the winter. It is considered a greatdelicacy, only a

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