英语词汇indian post office的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	indian post office
词源	Indian post office. Indians in the American West often piled sticks and stones in a mound to indicate that they had been at a certain point and would return there in a certain number of days, depending on the number of rocks and sticks piled there. Cowboys called such a mound an Indian post office because messages could be left there.
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