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I promised to follow the directions that my never-despairing companion had given me. "They won't get old Rube's scalp yit, they won't. He! he! he!" I turned towards him. The man was actually laughing at this wild and strangely-timed jest. It was awful to hear him. Several armfuls of brush were now thrown into the mouth of the cave. I saw that it was the creosote plant, the ideodondo.
Even this would have been sufficient to stifle them where they were; but the fumes now entering their nostrils were of a kind to cause suffocation almost instantaneously. The faggots set on fire were the stalks of the creosote plant the ideodondo of the Mexican table lands, well known for its power to cause asphyxia. Walt Wilder recognised it at the first whiff.
Then the stones were cast in; after them the burning stalks of the ideodondo; when, finally, to make destruction sure, the rock was rolled over, closing up the shaft as securely as if the cliff itself had fallen face downward upon the spot. The savages stayed no longer there. All were too eager to return to the waggons to make sure of their share in the captured spoils.
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