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The French name for the stream at the bottom of the valley already mentioned is derived from the Romance one, Lo Tourmento. Now, as Caesar made so much use of tormenta as engines of war, to prevent the besieged Cadurci from drawing water, something may easily have occurred to associate the stream with one of these machines.
"Por Dios!" he at length exclaims, "if that tree be speaking truth, and I never knew of the uinay telling lies, we'll have a storm upon us within twenty minutes' time; such a one as will sweep us out of our saddles, if we can't get under shelter. Ay, sure it's going to be either a temporal or tormenta! And this is not the where to meet it.
"Well," rejoins the gaucho, reflectingly, "I think I know of a place where we may manage it. There's a ford which can't be very far from this; but whether it's above or below, for the life of me I can't tell, everything's so changed by that detestable tormenta, and the ugly coat of plaster it has laid over the plain!
But although many a long league separated the Indians from those following upon their trail, and it would take the latter at least another day to reach the spot where the former had met the tormenta, both were beset by it within less than half-an-hour of the same time.
So off we started to the door, although we heard the tormenta raging without with appalling fury. Bang undid the latch, and the next moment he was flat on his back, the large leaf having flown open with tremendous violence, capsizing him like an infant.
All this done, they breathe freely, now feeling secure; and after a last look at the screen to assure himself of its being reliable, the gaucho turns to his companions, quietly remarking, "Now, muchachos, I fancy we need have no more fear of Mr Tormenta." As they are now in the midst of amorphous darkness, it might be imagined nothing could be done but keep their place, or go groping idly about.
But to Gaspar, the gaucho, everything is as clear as daylight; and, after a short inspection of the "sign," he thus truthfully interprets it: "The redskins had just got thus far, when the tormenta came on. It caught them here, and that's why we see these smooth patches; they lay down to let it blow by.
The first blast of the tormenta having blown over, the dust borne upon it is now in less volume; while the wind, rushing direct down the ravine, carries everything along with it only an occasional whiff seeking entrance into the cave. "For the matter of our being blinded," remarks the gaucho in perceiving this, "we needn't trouble about shutting the door again.
Cannon are sometimes called tormenta bellica, and at other times machina saxivoma E. The Second Voyage of Americas Vespucius.
Victor: Nomen habes Coronati; Te tormenta decet pati Pro corona gloriae. Elsewhere the same illustrious hymnologist plays in like manner on the name of St. Vincentius: Qui vincentis habet nomen Ex re probat dignum omen Sui fore nominis; Vincens terra, vincens mari Quidquid potest irrogari Poenae vel formidinis. In the Bull for the canonization of Sta.
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