Following the Chief's instructions we left the trail and followed some horse tracks over rolling hills, high on the mountain side.

We found the Indian camp exactly as the Chief had described, consisting of two or three lodges.

The men were all absent hunting, but the women were gathering and baking some sort of a root which looked like a carrot.

They made a pile of several bushels and covered it with earth, then made a fire, treating the pile some as a charcoal burner does his pit of coal.

When sufficiently cooked they beat them up and made the material into small cakes which were dried in the sun.