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He tells her that the reason for their not taking her direct to the estancia is, because of a party of Guaycurus, their enemies, being out on the war path, and it was to discover the whereabouts of these he and his followers were out scouting, when the sad mischance, as he flippantly terms it, arose.
A drove of wild horses? Or may they be mounted? Ah! you think it's a party of Guaycurus?" "No, indeed. But something we may dread as much ay, more than them. If my eyes don't deceive me, that's a tormenta." "Ha!" exclaims the young cacique, at length comprehending. "A tormenta, you think it is?" The others of the band mechanically mutter the same word, in like tones of apprehension.
When the Guaycurus are threatened by a severe storm, the men go out armed, and the women and children scream their loudest to intimidate the demon. During a tempest the inhabitants of a Batak village in Sumatra have been seen to rush from their houses armed with sword and lance. The rajah placed himself at their head, and with shouts and yells they hewed and hacked at the invisible foe.
It fitted me well; so well, that with some colouring stuff I found in the fellow's pouch, I was able to paint Indian, pass among the tents of the Guaycurus, and through a crowd of the savages themselves, without one of them suspecting the trick. In that way I slipped out of their camp and off. So, by something of the same I may be able to get the dear little nina out of this town of the Tovas."
As to counterfeiting an Indian, I propose taking the part myself; and I should be able to play it pretty well, having, as you both know, had some experience in that line. It was by a trick of the same sort I got off from the Guaycurus when I was their prisoner up the Pilcomayo; and if I hadn't done it neatly, you shouldn't now see me here."
But, again, it may not be; and if any other Indians if a band of Anguite, or Guaycurus, both at enmity with the Tovas then would they be also enemies to him, and his position one of great peril.
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