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Let me see," he adds, alternately turning his eyes up stream and down, "I fancy it must be above; and now I recollect there was a tall tree, a quebracha, not far from the ford. Ha!" he exclaims, suddenly catching sight of it, "there's the bit of timber itself! I can tell it by that broken branch on the left side. You see that, don't you, hijos mios?"

X, p. 99: ...pero no obstante esto á algunos amigos mios, y á otros, les ha parecido tener inconveniente por andar en lengua vulgar; y á , por la misma razon, me ha pesado que ande, y si lo pudiera estorbar, lo hubiera estorbado.

While they are occupied in the eating it, the gaucho, seeming more cheerful than usual, says: "I've a bit of good news for you, hijos mios." "Indeed! what?" is their eager inquiry. "That we are still upon the right road. The redskins have gone past here, as I supposed they would." "You've discovered fresh traces of them, then?"

"Now, muchachos mios! we must on to the salitral!" And on for this they ride; to reach the point where it commences, just as the sun's lower limb touches, seeming to rest on the level line of the horizon. And now, having arrived on the edge of the salitral, they make halt, still keeping to their saddles, with eyes bent over the waste which stretches far beyond and before them.

I listened to old Father de Fourri preach his short sermons in English to the few Americans who sat on one side of the aisle, in the church of Our Lady of Guadaloupe; then, turning with an easy gesture towards his Mexican congregation, who sat or knelt near the sanctuary, and saying, "Hermanos mios," he gave the same discourse in good Spanish.

Nolens volens, they must embark upon that brown, limitless expanse, which looks unattractive in the light of the rising sun as it did under that of the setting. In their saddles, and gazing over it before setting out, Gaspar says "Hijos mios; we can't do better than head due westward. That will bring us out of the salitral, somewhere.

"Why, hijos mios, what are you speaking of? Promises to me, a bribe for but doing my duty! 'Twill be a far day before Gaspar Mendez will need that for service done to either friend or relative of his dear dead master ay, to the laying down of my life. Carramba! are we not all embarked in the same boat, to swim or sink together? But we sha'n't sink yet; not one of us.

Without such incumbrance, it'll be so much the better for the saving of time; which at this present moment presses, with not the hundredth part of a second to spare. So hijos mios, and you, hija mia querida, let us mount and be off!"

"That's the way we've got to go," says Gaspar, pointing to it, at the same time setting his horse's head in the direction of the ceiba; then adding, as he nods towards the pita plant; "have a care of your heads, hijos mios! Look out for this queer customer on the left, or you may get your soft cheeks scratched a bit."

Then we may move them elsewhere, and if we're to have a run for it, remember, hijos mios, 'twill be a race for our lives. There's no Naraguana now to stand between us and that young wolf, who I fear has got the dear little lamb in his clutches, so fast we'll have great "