"Yo capitan, tambien; mucho grande heap capitan." (I'm a captain, too;
a very great heap captain.)
He then asked where we were from and where we were going, and informed
us that they were Yavapais on a hunting expedition. We exchanged hard
bread with them for a few cottontails, and set Clary to making a
rabbit-stew, the boys and I deferring our supper until it should be
ready.
"Oh, Mr. Duncan," shouted Henry from the direction of the Indians, a
few moments later, "come and see what these creatures are doing!"
I left the ambulance and joined the group of soldiers who stood in a
circle about an inner circle of seated Indians. Each Yavapai had
selected a rat from the collection in his belt, and had laid it on the
coals without dressing it or in any way disturbing its anatomy. He
rolled the rat over once or twice, and took it up and brushed and blew
off the singed hair. He placed it again on the coals for a moment,
and, taking it up, pinched off the charred fore legs close to the body
and the hind legs at the ham-joint. Replacing it on the fire, he
turned it over a few more times.
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