Endurance Of Indian Runners

An Iridian has been ttnown to carry a letter from Guazapares to Chihuahua and back ag-ain in five days, the dis tance being nearly 800 inilea. In some parts where the Tarahumaris serve the Mexicans they are U9ed to run in the wild hoi-ses, driving them into the corral: it may take them two or three days to do it, sleeping at night and living on a little pinolé. They in the horses thoroughly exhausted, while they themselves are still fresh. They will outrun any horse if you give them time enough. They will pursue deer in the snow, or with dogs, in the rain, for days and days, until at last the animal is cornered and shot with arrows, or falla au easy prey from sheer exhaustion, lts hoofs