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But he, as the gaucho himself, sees the impossibility of proceeding further, till they and their animals have had a spell of rest. For the purpose of obtaining this, they go in search of a suitable camping-place; which they soon find within a grove of algarobias, at some three or four hundred yards' distance from the ford.
Just as the first red rays of the Aurora are reflected from the tops of the trees around their camp, more faintly lighting up the lower level of the pampa beyond, Gaspar, peering through a break between the branches of the algarobias, sees a brace of large birds moving about over the plain. Not soldier-cranes, though creatures with necks and legs quite as long; for they are rheas.
We'll have to go without, or else, after all, break our fast upon these beans." Saying which, he glances up to the algarobias, from which the long siliques droop down in profusion, more plentiful than tempting to him.
And their animals also undergo a like rapid recovery, from browsing on the leaves and bean-pods of the algarobias; a provender relished by all pampas horses, as horned cattle, and nourishing to both. More than this, the fruit of this valuable tree when ripe, is fit food for man himself, and so used in several of the Argentine States.
But since the soldier-cranes had declined coming back by this time no doubt roosted in some far-off "cranery" and no other source of food supply offering, they must needs go to bed supperless, as they did. Their appetites were not yet sufficiently sharp, to have an inordinate craving for meat. Under the shadow of the algarobias the trackers sleep undisturbed.
Here, in a grove of algarobias, they come upon the spot where those they are in pursuit of must have made their night bivouac; this told by some fragments of food lying scattered around, and the grass burnt in two places large circular discs where their camp-fires had been kindled. The fires are out, and the ashes cold now; for that must have been two nights before.
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