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Updated: June 5, 2025
"And I've been wondering whether we ought to take the chances of going along that barranca just now." "It's the shortest way to where we left our horses, I reckon," remarked Bob. "And the only way we happen to know of," Frank went on; "but if that flood just happened to break loose while we were between those high walls we'd have an experience that would be fierce, let me tell you!"
I saw the madness of attempting to follow them, and turned to retreat towards the other side, where we had left our captives and horses. As I ran across the bottom, shots rang in my ear, proceeding from our side of the barranca. Looking up, I descried the mounted hunters coming down at a gallop, pursued by a cloud of savage horsemen. It was the band of Dacoma!
"Halt! stop" shouted we to the guides. "Stop! and let us seek shelter from the storm." "On! for God's sake, on! or we are lost," was the reply. Thank Heaven! the path is getting wider we come to a descent they are leading us out of the forest. If the storm had come on while we were among the trees, we might be crushed to death by the falling branches. We are close to a barranca. "Alerto!
Their poor horses, like themselves, suffered both from thirst and hunger; and the mule Jeanette occasionally uttered a wild hinnying that was painful to hear. As soon as day broke they remounted, and continued on along the edge of the barranca.
"Always plenty of signs to tell that horses have been going along here off'n on, both ways stacks of 'em," he announced, when perhaps an hour had elapsed since they left the scene of the encounter with the grizzly. The ravine, or gully, which he called a barranca, had gradually changed its character.
The rest, eighteen on each side, should descend to the bottom of the barranca, meet among the houses, and, having smoked the calumet, arrange the terms of the exchange. Neither Seguin nor I liked this proposal. It was a fearful thought, but there was nothing improbable in it.
But a few steps further on there would be a barranca, invisible till we came close to it, perhaps not more than a few hundred feet wide, so that it was easy to talk to people on the other bank.
When the Grizzly began to shake, I took a firm hold on the big limb with my hands and swung clear of the trunk. He made that tree snap like a whip, and as it swayed over toward the barranca I threw my feet out ahead and I let go. I shot through the air like a stone out of a sling, and struck the ground nearly fifty yards from the tree.
The whole of the Government property found in the Spanish custom-house was captured. The people of Huacho having volunteered information that a quantity of specie belonging to the Philippine Company had been placed for safety on board a vessel in the river Barrança, she was forthwith overhauled, and the treasure transferred to the flag-ship.
"We were never here before." "But this is the same old turtle crawl, isn't it; the barranca we followed up to the time we climbed the slope with our horses?" Bob asked. "It sure is, only a lot farther along, Bob. Notice how the walls tower upon each side. I knew something about this, and that was why I held back when you wanted to come down here. But let's hurry.
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