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Updated: June 16, 2025
"One can easily see that he does not remember the proverb which says: 'He who loves Beltran, loves his dog likewise." "But what has this proverb to do with the matter?" inquired the gentleman.
And it seemed to them that on the top of this mountain were many trees; and they saw strange wild beasts, such as lions, elephants, and other sorts, which came to gaze at them. And, not daring to advance further, they returned to the sultan. 'And this is all that is known? said Walter. 'Yes, replied Beltran. 'Where the Nile enters Egypt, it spreads in branches over the plain.
"Where have you been, Ray?" said Vivia, approaching, with her glowing cheeks, her sparkling eyes. "And what are you doing now?" "Trying camp-life again," replied Ray, looking up at her in a fixed admiration. "I've had a letter from Beltran." "Oh! where is he?" cried Ray. "Beltran is in camp." "And where?" "Perhaps on the Rio Grande, perhaps on the Potomac."
We came to a bubbling well of coldest water and drank to our great refreshment. Veritable pine trees, which we never saw in the lowlands, towered above and sang. The path was easier, but hardly, hardly, could Beltran drag himself along it. His arm was over my shoulder. Out of the dark pass we came upon a table almost bare of trees and covered with a fine soft grass.
Beltran the cook it was who heard and procured a great smoking torch, and sent out against them a voice like a bull of Bashan's. Arana sprang up, and the rest of us who slept. They were eleven men, armed and alert. There were shouts, blows, a clutching and a throwing off, a detaining and repelling. In the east showed long ghost fingers, the rain held away.
At last Juan Lepe, too, went to sleep. Next day we traveled among and over mountains. Our path, so narrow, climbed by rock and tree. Now it overhung deep, tree-crammed vales, now it bore through just-parted cliffs. Beltran and Juan Lepe had need for all their strength of body.
But Walter Espec and Guy Muschamp were on board the king's vessel, through the influence of the Lord of Joinville; and there also was Beltran the renegade, who, touched with remorse, had abandoned his wealth in Egypt, and was doing penance by labouring as a seaman. At length the fleet weighed anchor and set sail, with every prospect of a prosperous voyage.
"If Beltran said so, it would be true." "It's no more likely that he should be right than that I should be." "You couldn't have spoken so about Beltran once!" "Well, black or white, slave or free, never think I shall sit by and see my country fall to ruins." "Your country? Do you suppose you love it any more than I do?" "You're a woman." "Suppose I am a woman, you unkind boy"
And Beltran, suddenly pulling up with a fierce rein, does catch him, bestows him with Vivia, slightly to her dainty discomfort, and dashes on. Noon deepens; Vivia does not sleep, she seeks Ray, Ray who does not sleep either, but who is not to be beguiled.
Sancho met me, a young man whom then and afterwards I greatly liked. "Well, we've had luck, senor! Saint Noah himself, say I, wasn't any luckier!" "Yes, we've done well!" Beltran the cook's great easy voice rolled in. "Fear's your only barnacle, say I!" Luis Torres said, "When I studied Arabic and the Hebrew, I thought it was for the pleasure of it.
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