THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

The Yoshil (an Indian name) was – and perhaps still is – a tail-less protohominid, with lichenous hair of a yellowish green colour.  It stood almost eighty centimetres high, walked on two feet and lived in the territory of the Haush.  It always went armed with a stone or short club.  By day it lived in the nire trees but at night it would warm itself by the fire of a lonely hunter.  The Yoshil was probably vegetarian and fed on wild fruits, fungi, and the white grubs that are the staple of the Magellanic woodpecker.

Chatwin/Patagonia