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At last we reached a tambo, or shed, built for the use of travellers the first sign of civilisation we had met since we left the western side of the Cordilleras. We were now once more in a warmer region. Butterflies of large size, covered with orange-coloured spots, fluttered about; and red monkeys leapt from tree to tree, frequently coming down to make grimaces at us.
"'You take no interest in this problem? he demanded. "'Oh yes. "'Then why do you not ask me why? he said, looking vaguely disappointed. "'Well, I said, in desperation, 'why do cats bite? hang it all! I thought, 'it's like a burned-cork show, and I'm Mr. Bones and he's Tambo! "Then he smiled gently. 'Young man, he said, 'cats bite because they feed on catnip. I have reasoned it out.
At length the fearful Paramo was passed; and yet this was only half the size of many which exist in the country. Before dark we reached a tambo situated at a lower level and exposed to the free air, but even there we felt it very cold.
Slight as the disturbance had been, uneasiness was in the air. The savages on the far shore were up, peering at the tambo and muttering to one another. Measuring the distance, the lieutenant saw that, though they had undoubtedly seen the flashlight switched on and off and made out the movements of men, they could not have discerned what lay on the ground beyond the hammocks.
He was ordered to make chowder out of the big clams that grew in the lagoon. This he could not do, for clams were tambo. Six times in succession he refused to touch the clams, and six times he was knocked senseless. Bunster knew that the boy would die first, but called his refusal mutiny, and would have killed him had there been another cook to take his place.
Frequently three days are occupied by persons on horseback, but you march so quickly that we may do it in less time; and there is a tambo about midway where we can obtain shelter." "Cross it we must, at all risks," answered Uncle Richard, who was especially eager to get back to the neighbourhood of Popayan, to ascertain how his family were faring. He intended also to try and raise a corps.
Don Jose told us that in the rainy season this road is flooded, and that then the canoe takes the place of mules. We put up the first night at a tambo, or road-side inn, a bamboo hut of two stories, thatched with plantain leaves. As the lower part was occupied by four-footed animals, we had to climb into the upper story by means of a couple of stout bamboos with notches cut in them.
Each man is goaded by his own spur money, wine, women, excitement, revenge. Money is not mine." He yawned, arose, stretched like a cat, and stepped toward his hammock. The two Brasilians also moved toward the tambo. The others stood a moment longer beside the fire.
Disbanding the greater part of his forces, therefore, he ordered them to withdraw to their homes, and, after the labors of the field were over, to return and resume the blockade of the capital. The Inca reserved a considerable force to attend on his own person, with which he retired to Tambo, a strongly fortified place south of the valley of Yucay, the favorite residence of his ancestors.
This baptism took place in a village near to Dulac, called Tambo, whither he had gone to visit and console its people.
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