The method of awarding the victory was this: the different runners were to be checked off as they passed the different stages of the course, and crossed off as they came across the finish-line.

They laid out a half-mile course, and everybody in camp went out to the finish-line to see the contest and to bet on it.

Me and the chief and his girl set on a blanket among the little piles of silver, and the rest of the merry villagers lined up close to the finish-line.