On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 18:46, Eva Hedin wrote: > > Can you imagine - running for eight hours in the African desert? > Eva I read years ago that in the early times of wild horse catching by American Indians, a man would just follow the horse. Took some days, but the horse would be too tired to run. Energy-dense food (pemmican), which he would have carried, has an advantage over grass. William