Identifier: hardwickesscienc03cook (find matches)
Title: Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825 Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895
Subjects: Science Natural history
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
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lose upto the rump. Thisis, or once was, a common custom with the SiskyooIndians, and all horses so trimmed are designatedby the generic name of Siskyoo. The object ofthis barbarous custom was to enable these Indianseasily to recognise their own horses if stolen andsubsequently discovered herding with other bands.Horse-stealing is the primary cause of nearly everyIndian war and quarrel. The poor Siskyoo beast,although as perfect a cob as any man need havelooked on, was nevertheless utterly valueless duringthe summer; nnable to whip away his tormentors,they worried him with impunity, until want of restand continuous irritation reduced him wellnigh toa skeleton. When found make a note of. Alwayslook out for long-tailed mules and horses in a flycountry. The author of this book was Naturalist to theBritish North American Boundary Commission, andwhen reading his account of one difficulty which hehad to surmount to the west of the Cascade moun-tains, we could not help wondering what some of
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mg: po. our parlour naturalists would have done in sucha strait. The place is now called the DiamondTree Pass. It certainly was an awful place upwhich to make a trail that should be available forpacked mules, and, to add to the difficulty, a good-sized stream of water tumbled rather than randown the hill-side. The distance from the base tothe summit, in a straight line, was not more thanthree-quarters of a mile, but it was rocky anddensely timbered. The difficulty, too, was the more complicated, inasmuch as the prairie leading to thepass was intersected by several streams not fordable,and two swamps that must be crossed. I thoughtthe matter carefully over, climbed up and down thehill, and recalling the words of Napoleon, Impos-sible, eesi le mot dlinfoic, Anally made up my mindto do it. By describing how this apparent impossi-bility was overcome, I shall give all the practicalhints relating to trail-making, bridge-building, andfording swamps which a wanderer can require. Butour space

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