A Digger Indian.
1837. Sometimes the Diggers aspire to nobler game.—Washington Irving, ‘Captain Bonneville,’ ii. 209. (N.E.D.)
1855. These diggers have, each one, a stick, a long slender stick, with a hook at the end of it…. The object of the hook is to assist them in pursuing the lizard, a chief article of food with them. The lizard runs for his life, when he sees one of these diggers with his stick, and gets into a hole. The Indian puts in this hooked stick and brings it out, and quick he is broiled and eaten.—Mr. Benton of Missouri, House of Repr., Jan. 30: Cong. Globe, p. 477.
