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Updated: May 29, 2025
That little band of ragged, weather-beaten, hard-bitten soldiers, under the leadership of the most lovable and gallant of the Spaniards of his time, on that lonely mountain peak rising above the almost limitless sea of trackless verdure, gazing upon the great ocean whose waters extended before them for thousands and thousands of miles, attracts the attention and fires the imagination.
Ready to cry from twenty hours in the saddle, he learned to ignore the thousand aching creaks in his body and with the stoic brag of silence to withstain from his blankets until the hard-bitten punchers led the way.
He was the kind of man one likes at first sight, but for all that not the kind his hard-bitten neighbors would have chosen to stand by them through the strain of drought and frost in adverse seasons. As it happened, the grim, hard-faced Sager, who had come there from Michigan, was just then talking about him to Stukely.
Not far off to the left of him and his mounted infantry there were coming on for this purpose two batteries of artillery and three thousand infantry Leary's brigade, which had not been in the action the day before at Wortmann's Drift. But all depended on what he was able to do, what he and his hard-bitten South Africans could accomplish. Well, he had no doubt.
They divided into two shifts, working day and night, on two shafts, and the smoke of their burning rose continually. It was at this time that they ran short of beans and that Elijah was despatched to the main camp to bring up more grub. Elijah was one of the hard-bitten old-time travelers himself.
Yes, in the fortnight that followed the shooting of the moose and the disappearance of Bill the sled-team driven by Jean and Jake was perhaps the finest and the most efficient in all that white world of hard-bitten, hard-trained, hard-working men and dogs. And, by that token, there was no happier team living, and none in better condition.
The newcomer was a man of lofty stature, with a small red moustache and a lean, hard-bitten face whose redness made it evident that its acquaintance, if not with the smoke of gunpowder, at all events with that of tobacco, was intimate and extensive. Nevertheless he greeted Chichikov civilly, and the latter returned his bow.
"I was worried about you." The roaring of motors outside the hospital interrupted them. More and more vehicles arrived, until a deep purring filled the air. A Greek doctor with a worried expression hurried somewhere. Soldiers appeared, hard-bitten, tough, professional Greek soldiers. Hallen came out of a hospital room.
It was the face of a complete stranger: at the best that of a hard-bitten war correspondent or explorer; at the worst well, I don't know what it mightn't have been at the worst. I stared and stared in a kind of incredulous fascination, until McMurtrie's voice abruptly recalled me to my surroundings. "Well, Mr. Neil Lyndon," he said, "do you recognize yourself?" I laid down the glass.
He did not deny himself that the confident air of these hard-bitten sailors made strong appeal to his judgment. He had his own reasons for distrusting some among his professed supporters, and he did not share his military aide's opinion as to the coming of the promised vessel.
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