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I wish we hadn't done it now, for he has proved more of a hindrance than a help, and his real knowledge of fauna and flora could be put in a peanut shell, with room to spare." "He's a big brag," answered Tom. "Take my advice and never trust him too far or you may be sorry for it." Presently Aleck came back, with Cujo following.
In a few words Cujo explained the situation, stating that they now held in bondage eighteen women and children, including King Susko's favorite wife Afgona.
"But the question is, now we have tracked the rascals, what is to be done next?" After a long talk it was resolved to get as close to the old fort as possible. Cujo said they need not hurry, for it would be best to wait until nightfall before making any demonstration against their enemies.
Here Cujo was well known and he readily procured good accommodations for all hands. The next week passed without special incident, excepting that one afternoon the whole party went hunting, bringing down a large quantity of birds, and several small animals, including an antelope, which to the boys looked like a Maine deer excepting for the peculiar formation of its horns. "I wonder how Mr.
In 1596, the small city of La Punta, or San Luis de Loyola, was founded in the eastern part of Cujo, in lat. 33° 47' S. long. 65° 33' W. Although the thoroughfare for all the trade from Chili and Cujo to Buenos Ayres, it is a miserable place with scarcely two hundred inhabitants; but its jurisdiction is extensive and populous, and is administered both in civil and military affairs by a deputy of the corregidor of Mendoza.
Among the vegetable productions of Cujo, one of the most remarkable is a species of palm, which never exceeds eighteen feet high, putting forth all its branches so near the ground as to conceal the trunk. The leaves are extraordinarily hard, and terminate in a point as sharp as a sword. The fruit resembles the cocoa-nut, yet only contains a few hard round seeds, with no edible kernel.
The monkeys made the boys' hearts ache, especially one big female, that was found tightly clasping two little baby monkeys to her breast. The storm had swollen the river to such an extent that they were forced to leave the beaten track Cujo had been pursuing and take to another trail which reached out to the southward.
Two days later the storm which Cujo had predicted for some time caught them while they were in the midst of an immense forest of teak and rosewood. It was the middle of the afternoon, yet the sky became as black as night, while from a distance came the low rumble of thunder. There was a wind rushing high up in the air, but as yet this had not come down any further than the treetops.
All were busy, and it was not until after eleven that evening that they turned in. The day for the departure from Boma dawned bright and clear, and Cujo appeared with his assistants while they were still eating breakfast. "Werry good day for um journey," he said, with a grin. "Make good many miles if nothing go wrong." "You can't do any too well for me," answered Dick.
Once Sam left the highway to get a better view of the stream, and, before Cujo noticed it, found himself up to his knees in a muck which stuck to him like so much glue. "Hi! help me out!" roared the youngest Rover, and all of the party turned, to behold him waving his hand frantically toward them.
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