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He left us at the foot of a mountain, the last we had to cross, the steep acclivity of which somewhat damped our ardor. Lucien was the first to arrive on the plateau. A few steps farther, and the town of Orizava lay stretched in peaceful repose at our feet.
'Did you ever hear o' the Lang Men o' Larut? he asked when the Man from Orizava had finished a story of an aboriginal giant discovered in the wilds of Brazil. There was never story yet passed the lips of teller, but the Man from Orizava could cap it. 'No, we never did, we responded with one voice. The Man from Orizava watched the Chief keenly, as a possible rival.
Now Larut, you will understand, is a dependency, or it may be an outlying possession, o' the island o' Penang, and there they will get you tin and manganese, an' it mayhap mica, and all manner o' meenerals. Larut is a great place. 'But what about the population? said the Man from Orizava. 'The population, said the Chief slowly, 'were few but enorrmous.
Twenty minutes after, we entered Orizava by some of the side streets, to prevent a crowd following at our heels. When we were about fifty paces from our house, Lucien and l'Encuerado darted off at a racing pace; they found all the inmates of our home assembled on the threshold. Gringalet had announced our arrival.
The constant rattling of rifles and musketry told that our skirmishers were busy in the advance. The arsenal was carried by a brilliant charge, and the American flag waved over the ruins of the Convent Malibran. On the 11th the Orizava road was crossed, and the light troops of the enemy were brushed from the neighbouring hills.
From the summit of Orizava to the shores of the Mexican Sea, I glance through every gradation of the thermal line. I am looking, as it were, from the pole to the equator! I am alone. My brain is giddy. My pulse vibrates irregularly, and my heart beats with an audible distinctness. I am oppressed with a sense of my own nothingness an atom, almost invisible, upon the breast of the mighty earth.
Thus we had traversed the whole breadth of the Cordillera, at one time shivering on their summits, at another perspiring, as we penetrated narrow and deep-sunk valleys, just as the chances of our journey led us. Every now and then we caught a sight of the pointed cone of the volcano of Orizava, which assisted us in taking our bearings.
You must understand that, exceptin' the tin-mines, there is no special inducement to Europeans to reside in Larut. The climate is warm and remarkably like the climate o' Calcutta; and in regard to Calcutta, it cannot have escaped your obsairvation that 'Calcutta isn't Larut; and we've only just come from it, protested the Man from Orizava. 'There's a meteorological department in Calcutta, too.
But we were fording a stream fed by the snows of Orizava. "Now I am certain of the road," continued Raoul, after we had crossed. "I know this bank well. The mule slides. Look out, Captain." "For what?" I asked, with some anxiety. The Frenchman laughed as he replied: "I believe I am taking leave of my senses.
Henceforth this mountain was to be our guide while crossing the immense savannah, an undertaking which filled me with dread. "Shall we cross that great plain?" asked Lucien. "Yes, Master Sunbeam, it is the shortest way to Orizava." "How many hours shall we be in doing it?" "Hours? We shall be three or four days at least."
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