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Updated: May 25, 2025
It was not my good looks that won the heart of the girl." "Your good qualities?" "Not much to boast of, cavallero. True, in my youth, I had the name of being the best horseman in our village the best rastreador the most skilful trapper.
Not one of their whole fraternity could follow the trace of a buffalo in snow-time. Carrambo! No." "There is one who could," I replied; "one who could follow a feebler trail than ours." "What! A rastreador among these Judios! Who, cavallero?" "Their father!" I whispered the reply, so that neither of the girls should overhear it.
"Oh! true," muttered the Mexican "the father of the huntress a hunter himself? Carrai! that's like enough. But no matter. I can take you up the gorge in such fashion, that the most skilled rastreador of the prairies would never suspect we had passed through. Fortunately, the ground is favourable. The bottom of the little canon is covered with cut rocks. The hoof will leave no mark upon these."
Cuchillo knew the rare qualities of Tiburcio his talents as a rastreador, or tracker his daring prowess in Indian warfare; and after some consideration, he resolved to enrol him in the expedition of Don Estevan, to which he would no doubt prove of great value. "That will be the best plan," said the outlaw, speaking in soliloquy. "What would his life be worth to me now?
In the interior of the Argentine every Gaucho is a trailer or rastreador. On those vast feeding-grounds of a million cattle, whose tracks intersect each other in every direction, the herdsman can distinguish with unerring accuracy the footprints of his own peculiar charge.
His eagle eye singles out at a glance the estray; rising in his stirrup, he whirls the lasso for a moment above his head, launches it through the air, and coolly drags the recalcitrant beast away on the homeward trail. He is nothing but a common, comparatively unskilled, rastreador. The official trailer is of another stamp.
The captain of the English brig, not knowing what to do with him, gave him to Arellanos who chanced to be in Guaymas at the time and Arellanos brought him up and has made a man of him my faith! that he has. Young as the fellow is, there is not such a rastreador nor horse-tamer in the province."
Cooper has told us how and by what signs, in years that have forever faded, the Huron tracked his flying foe through the forests of the North; we read of Cuban bloodhounds, and of their frightful baying on the scent of the wretched maroon; we know how the Bedouin follows his tribe over pathless sands; and yet all these are bunglers, in comparison with the Gaucho rastreador!
When the robbery was discovered, his wife covered the robber's trail with a kneading-trough. Two months later Calébar returned, and was shown the almost obliterated footprint. Months rolled by; the saddle was apparently forgotten; but a year and a half later, as the rastreador was again at Buenos Ayres, a footprint in the street attracted his notice.
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