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Updated: May 3, 2025
There were no tails to the great black beard, there were few pistols visible, and Captain Bonnet's host received him with a certain salt-soaked, sun-browned, hairy, and brawny hospitality which did not sit badly upon him.
They had come a little way "up trail" at least Desire had said it was a little way, and her companion was too proud of his recovered powers of locomotion to express unkind doubt of the adjective. There had been no rainy days for a week. The air was sun-soaked, and salt-soaked, and somewhere there was a wind. But not here.
The salt-water and the salt-soaked earth from the bottom of the lagoon are put into vats and leached, and the resulting saline is boiled in ovens, each of which contains an olla. The industry is conducted by ladinos, as well as indians, but the salt is poor. It was 8:45 when we started, and almost immediately we began a hard climb over limestone, giving a severe test to our poor animals.
He gathered the wood from the dry drifts above the waterline and kindled a fire. The salt-soaked sticks burned fiercely, and the dinner was cooked in a jiffy a fresh chicken he had bought, sweet potatoes, and delicious buttered toast. They sat in their bathing suits on camp-stools beside the folding table and ate by moonlight.
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