This locality is of considerable elevation, with the Indian ranches lying about here and there on strips of level land, which run in among the rocky hills like _fjords_.

Bears are quite common here, and the Indians have difficulty in guarding their fields against them.

They are not even to be frightened by stones, and at night they will eat corn until they have enough, and then walk away.
The time of the year in which it is most difficult for the Indians to subsist had passed, and the copious rains of the past months had developed ears of corn.

Rarely or never do the Indians plant corn enough to last them all the year round, and they have, therefore, during the summer to depend for support mainly on herbs, roots, fruits, etc.

The leaves and flowers of the ash-tree are cooked and eaten, and the flowers of the pine-tree.