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Updated: May 18, 2025
"God bless my soul!" exclaimed the Major, staring at me from under his black eyebrows, "he was but a child." "With an old head on his shoulders," said the Colonel, and his banter made me flush. The negro boy arriving with the toddy, Colonel Clark served out three generous gourdfuls, a smaller one for me. "Your health, my friends, and I drink to a peaceful settlement."
A swarthy boatman in a tow shirt with a bright handkerchief on his head stared at us over the gunwale of one of the keel boats, and spat into the still, yellow water; three high-cheeked Indians, with smudgy faces and dirty red blankets, regarded us in silent contempt; and by the water-side above us was a sled loaded with a huge water cask, a bony mustang pony between the shafts, and a chanting negro dipping gourdfuls from the river.
A swarthy boatman in a tow shirt with a bright handkerchief on his head stared at us over the gunwale of one of the keel boats, and spat into the still, yellow water; three high-cheeked Indians, with smudgy faces and dirty red blankets, regarded us in silent contempt; and by the water-side above us was a sled loaded with a huge water cask, a bony mustang pony between the shafts, and a chanting negro dipping gourdfuls from the river.
They did not talk long, and were soon sound asleep. Zaki was the first to wake. "Day is just breaking, master." "You don't say so!" Gregory grumbled, sleepily. "It seems to me that we have only just lain down." They ate the remainder of their dates, took a drink of water, and gave two gourdfuls to the horses; and, in a quarter of an hour, were on their way again.
"God bless my soul!" exclaimed the Major, staring at me from under his black eyebrows, "he was but a child." "With an old head on his shoulders," said the Colonel, and his banter made me flush. The negro boy arriving with the toddy, Colonel Clark served out three generous gourdfuls, a smaller one for me. "Your health, my friends, and I drink to a peaceful settlement."
"How much more is there left?" he asked, after the lad had given a little water to each horse. "Not above two gourdfuls." "Well, we must ride as far as we can and, at any rate, must keep one gourdful for tomorrow. If we cover twenty-five miles today and I don't think the horses can do more we can manage, if they are entirely done up, to walk the other thirty-five miles.
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