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Updated: May 14, 2025
They saw the white houses of coffee plantations gleam across the clearings. They struck into a road where they met travellers and pack-mules. Cattle were grazing on the slopes. They passed a little village where the round-eyed ninos shrieked and called at sight of them. Mlle. Giraud laid aside her leopard-skin robe. It seemed to be a trifle incongruous now.
So he left the tramp steamer at that place and disappeared into the interior with an ox-cart and a couple of pack-mules, and returned to write a lengthy letter from the Consul's office to a Mr. Langham in the United States, knowing he was largely interested in mines and in mining. "There are five mountains filled with ore," Clay wrote, "which should be extracted by open-faced workings.
It was difficult riding, and reduced the pace of the pack-mules to something under three miles an hour. As we ploughed across the sand I saw Suera itself, the Picture City of Sidi M'godol, a saint of more than ordinary repute, who gave the city the name by which it is known to Europe.
I selected four good soldiers, with Aaron, Colonel Mason's black servant, and a good outfit of horses and pack-mules, we started by the usually traveled route for Yerba Buena. There Captain Fulsom and two citizens joined our party. The first difficulty was to cross the bay to Saucelito.
For the latter class of warfare men must be lightly equipped; in India, even the men's great-coats are carried for them on pack-mules. The key to success in modern mountain fighting proved to be the rapidity with which roads could be constructed for bringing forward artillery.
Neither food nor drink was offered to us, although we were both thirsty and hungry. We were kept in this place for about an hour. "They have joined another party here," said Raoul, "with pack-mules." "How know you?" I inquired. "I can tell by the shouts of the arrieros. Listen! they are making ready to start."
In the streets, though they were by no means asleep, but, contrariwise, busy with the traffic of men and pack-mules, there was a shrewd bite as of night air; looking up we could perceive how faint the blue of the sky was, and the cloud-flaw how rosy yet with the flush of Aurora's beauty-sleep.
I heard it asserted in Santiago more than once that food issued by the Red Cross to people who were supposed to be starving had afterward been sold openly on the street by hucksters, and had even been carried on pack-mules in comparatively large quantities to suburban villages and sold there; but I doubt very much the truth of this assertion.
You must be well mounted, and I suppose you will want a mule for your baggage." "No! I shall take no more than I can carry in my saddle-bags. We must not be incumbered with pack-mules on an expedition of this sort. We may have to ride for our lives." "You are quite right, Señor Fortescue; so you may.
They had all, however, been thrown together by the force of a common interest. All were bound for the gold-mines, and it was necessary that they should travel in company for mutual protection and assistance. There were two guides, who had charge of ten pack-mules loaded with provisions for the storekeepers at some remote diggings.
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