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! DAINTY J'lUTt'S. |The Piutes have been to Mono Lake,j having a pow-wow ami one of their native dances. The water of the lake is j very peculiar. Barbers have brought it here for shampooing, saving it was j much better than anything they could i prepare. If persons going in the lake for a bath stay in the water a few ruin-• utes, they have such a pricking and itching sensation of the skin that they have to go to a spring of fresh water and wash their bodies for relief. Atthis season of the year the water is*thick with small worm, about half an inch long, that changes to a species of11 v, and a light breeze of wind willi drive windrows of them on the shore. The Indians rub oil the outer shell or skin, winnow them, and anther bushels | of the bodies for winter food. Another ; of their customs is scraping the groundj clean under a pine tree, and making afire under the tree, the smoke causing worms about the size ami as long as alinger to fall from the tree, which they ! gather for winter food. They have no idea of cultivation, and only depend upon what Nature has provided, except ' what they get from the whites for workI done. When they have money will buy refuse beef, but no pork.When the butcher kills, they help him, and take the head, legs, and entrails to I their camp.—Nevada Letter.
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Dixon Sun
Dixon, Illinois, US
Wed, Sep 17, 1873
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