35/83 It flows between banks of sand thinly wooded and as we advanced the barren hills approached the water's edge. The Northern Indian fairies are six inches high, lead a life similar to the Indians, and are excellent hunters. Those who have had the good fortune to fall in with their tiny encampments have been kindly treated and regaled on venison. We did not learn with certainty whether the existence of these delightful creatures is known from Indian tradition or whether the Indians own their knowledge of them to their intercourse with the traders, but think the former probable.) At ten we rejoined our hunters who had killed a deer and halted to breakfast. |