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Updated: May 31, 2025
We broke our fast here, and then drove for another mile or so where a path leaves the road, and the pilgrim has either to proceed on horseback or on foot. We had to go on foot, and a very long and tiring walk it proved to be. Besides Dr. S. and his factotum, Lazo, we took another man with us, a wretched puny individual, but seemingly possessed of more endurance than any of us.
Just at this moment a man is seen advancing, lazo in hand, in front of the carretas. He is afoot. As soon as he has detached himself from the crowd, he spins the lazo round his head, and the noose shooting out is seen to settle over the horns of the bull.
If anything happens, three howls of the coyote will put me on my guard." As he said this, Pepe took up a lazo that lay near, and turning his face in the direction in which he was most likely to find a drove of horses, he walked off into the woods. Bois-Rose was left alone.
He to whose croup I was attached was last in the line; and, consequently, I was trailed along without coming in contact with the others the long lazo separating me from his horse by a distance of more than a dozen yards. Fortunately the ground over which they dragged me, was free from rocks or other inequalities else I should have been torn to pieces.
All at once my horse came galloping toward me with the lazo hanging round his neck, which he had broken at the risk of hanging himself. "`Here then, said I, `I shall now have two horses to go in search of instead of one. "I had scarce made this reflection, when I observed, under the light of the moon, a superb jaguar bounding after my horse.
When a bullock is checked and caught by the lazo, it will sometimes gallop round and round in a circle, and the horse being alarmed at the great strain, if not well broken, will not readily turn like the pivot of a wheel.
Our messing arrangements were of the simplest, raw ham and eggs forming the staple food. We bought a lamb once, but it only lasted one meal, as everyone developed an extraordinary appetite the parson, Lazo our servant, and all the men in the vicinity. When we left we had the blessing of our worthy priest and fervent invitations to return again soon from some of the fishermen.
Nor would it be so, if the horse, when left to itself without its rider, did not soon learn, for its own safety, to keep the lazo tight, so that, if the cow or ox moves forward, the horse moves just as quickly forward; otherwise, it stands motionless leaning on one side. This horse, however, was a young one, and would not stand still, but gave in to the cow as she struggled.
But how did this hyur whang kum cuf? An' whar's the other eend?" I saw that he held in his hand the noose of the lazo which he had taken from my ankles, and I explained the mystery of how it had "kum cut". This seemed to raise me still higher in the hunter's esteem.
The bull came rushing past within fifty paces of where we stood, snorting with rage, and tossing his horns high in the air his pursuers close upon him. At this moment one of the vaqueros launched his lazo, which, floating gracefully out, settled down over one horn. Seeing this, the vaquero did not turn his horse, but sat facing the bull, and permitted the rope to run out.
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