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They were, in fact, the hired peons of Carlos the cibolero the white man, and chief of the party. The half-blood Antonio by name was "arriero" of the mule-train, while the three Indians drove the ox-teams, guiding them across the ford with their long goads. Carlos himself was mounted upon his fine black horse, and, muffled in a strong serape, rode in front to pilot the way.
Cherrie and Miller also went in them, because they had found that it was very difficult to collect birds, and especially mammals, when we were moving every day, packing up early each morning and the mule-train arriving late in the afternoon or not until nightfall. Moreover, there was much rain, which made it difficult to work except under the tents.
"It is too public here to be to our liking." "You may go to a quieter place," nodded Gato. "You know where the place I showed you this afternoon. As for me, after the mule-train has left the mine, I must go there. I will join you before daybreak." "We'll go now, then," muttered one of the men, rising. They were coming up the road in the direction of the young engineers.
A century earlier Sir Francis Drake had led his men near enough to Panama to behold the distant sea from the top of a high tree. But he had contented himself with waylaying and plundering a mule-train laden with treasure, and in 1670 it seemed the act of madness for a horde of freebooters to attack the city itself. Yet this was what the daring Morgan designed to do.
"Come on, now," whispered Tom. "Toward the mine." "And run into Gato?" grimaced Harry. "Great!" "If we meet him we ought to get away with him between us," Tom retorted. "One of us did him up this morning." "Go ahead, Tom!" Reade led the way in the darkness. They skirted the road, though keeping a sharp lookout. "There are the lights of the mule-train ahead," whispered Tom.
Then in the case of a stampede, great clear-headedness and coolness were needed to prevent loss of life. Stampedes were frequently very serious affairs, particularly with a large mule-train. Notwithstanding the willingness and patient qualities of that animal, he can act as absurdly as a Texas steer, and is as easily frightened at nothing.
Accordingly, the two naturalists desired to get to a place where they could spend several days and collect steadily, thereby doing more effective work. The rest of us continued with the mule-train, as was necessary.
As often as once a year he used to go to Omaha, in Nebraska, with a mule-train for goods; but although he had performed the rather perilous journey many times with entire safety, his heart was strangely sad on this particular morning, and filled with gloomy forebodings. The time for his departure had arrived. The high-spirited mules were at the door, impatiently champing their bits.
The mule-train with our tents and baggage passed us in the valley while we were sweltering under the hawthorns. It seems as if it must have vanished into the pastoral wilderness and left us travelling an endless road to nowhere. At last we top a rugged ridge and look down upon the solution of the mystery.
Some we waded at fords. Some we crossed by rude bridges. The larger ones, such as the Juina, we crossed by ferry, and when the approaches were swampy, and the river broad and swift, many hours might be consumed in getting the mule-train, the loose bullocks, and the ox- cart over.
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