“Don’t assume that I want to mystify you,” he added,

Indians are always hungry, but these poor creatures were particularly

so, as their usual supply of food had grown very scarce from one

In prosperity they mainly subsisted on fish, or game killed with the

bow and arrow. When these sources failed they lived on grasshoppers,

and at this season the grasshopper was their principal food. In

former years salmon were very abundant in the streams of the

Sacramento Valley, and every fall they took great quantities of these

fish and dried them for winter use, but alluvial mining had of late