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Crispy Critter
Posted Apr 5, 2009 10:27 PM
At Mount Diablo, in the coastal range near San Francisco today.A very pretty place. Tonight I started looking up some stuff form there and found this report from 1823.
A very low-grade of Indians used to inhabit this region. Dr. Marsh described
them as being very hairy and full-bearded, with short, broad faces, wide noses
and mouths, thick lips, extremely low foreheads; the hair of the head nearly
meeting the eyebrows, and a few having a strikingly Mongolian eye. They wore no
clothing and lived like the Diggers. Epidemic diseases decimated them, and
civilization completed their destruction. Their music was described by a graphic
writer thus: "A thousand cross-cut saws filed by steam power, a multitude of
tom-cats lashed together and flung over a clothes-line, innumerable pigs under a
gate, all combined, would produce a heavenly music compared to it!" Of their
filth he says: "Talk of the thousand stinks of the city of Cologne! here are at
least 40,000 combined in one grand overwhelming stench, and yet every particular
odor definable;" and oh, such convulsions as they would have in their dances,
with the sweat streaming from every pore!
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?
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