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The Panes are Horse-Indians too, but on their marauding expeditions to the South they often go afoot, trusting to return mounted which they almost invariably do. "After all," thought Carlos, "I have been wronging the Wacoes the robbers are Panes!" But now a new suspicion entered his mind. It was still the Wacoes that had done it. They had adopted the Pane whistle to deceive him!
Low informs me, that a neighbouring tribe of foot-Indians is now changing into horse-Indians: the tribe at Gregory Bay giving them their worn-out horses, and sending in winter a few of their best skilled men to hunt for them. June 1st. We anchored in the fine bay of Port Famine.
The Camanches, in common with all the other "horse-Indians," are much addicted to horse racing; and almost every afternoon some sport of this kind would take place on the plain before the village.
Something very similar, though neither conditions nor consequences were quite the same, occurred in the pampas of South America, where horse-Indians like the Patagonians, who seem at first sight the indigenous outcrop of the very soil, are really the recent by-product of an intrusive culture.
To get the wagons up the bluff, eight hundred feet or so in height, along a path which had been cut in the rock or built up with stone, was obviously impossible. Would there be safety where they were, just at the base of the noble slope? The Moquis assured them by signs that the plundering horse-Indians never came so near the pueblos.
It was a wild hunting scene, such as belonged properly to times primeval. But indeed the whole life of these wild red nomads, the plumed and painted horse-Indians of the great plains, belonged to time primeval. It was at once terrible and picturesque, and yet mean in its squalor and laziness. In his books, especially upon the Pawnees and Blackfeet, Mr. Wilkinson Descends the Arkansas.
"Why, there appeared to be a good number, full half, of the rascals afoot." "True; I observed that." "Now, master, I have seen a cavallada stampeded by the Comanches more than once they were always mounted." "What signifies that? These are Wacoes, not Comanches." "True, master; but I have heard that the Wacoes, like the Comanches, are true Horse-Indians, and never go afoot on any business."
Low informs me, that a neighbouring tribe of foot-Indians is now changing into horse-Indians: the tribe at Gregory Bay giving them their worn-out horses, and sending in winter a few of their best skilled men to hunt for them. We anchored in the fine bay of Port Famine.
In March, 1877, Doctor Moreno with a party of men working on the boundary commission, and with a number of Patagonian horse-Indians, was encamped for some weeks beside Lake Viedma, which had not before been visited by white men for a century, and which was rarely visited even by Indians.
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