Grasshoppers As Food

In the Sierra and Martin valleys Iodian huts can be secn, and in and around tbein are congregated the warriors and equaws of the tribo, their bisters, cout-ins and their aunts, all intent upon the accomplisbinent of the grand result. As usual the Fquaws do the work while their noble lords loll upen the grecu sward, Btiiokc their pipes, and dreamily and lazily gaze upon the countless myriads ot' buzzing hoppers that fill the air and devour the vegetation. The squaws, carrying cone-shaped baskets of great capacity, scoop the grasshoppers with a fanabaped iraplemeut into their large baskets, and wben loaded carry the wiggling mass of insects to camp, and then prepare them for food. The grasshoppers, killed and sub.seiupntly dried, are mixed with mashed pino mu - or cracked wbeat, and made ioto bread, most delicioua to the palate of the Washoe. White visitors at the camp arealways invited, in accordance with Indian hospitality, to partake ol the compound, and great is the astonislimont of poor Lo, at the disgust expressed by the white man, for food ofthiskind. To the Hmited inind of the Indiun it is incomprehensible that any une should rejectfood which in his vernacular is defined as beini; " mucheo eood."