Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: September 17, 2025
At his bidding villas and pleasaunces were constructed; roads were carried by means of viaducts across the airy plateau lying between the Salto and the Solaro; and the able bodied inhabitants of the island were enrolled as a sort of honorary bodyguard for the person of Augustus during his occasional visits.
The agente rode with us in the morning quite a league upon our road, to a place which he was clearing for a milpa. We had heard so much of the horrors of the road to El Salto, that we were prepared for the worst. It was not an abrupt descent, as we had expected, but for the most part level, over black mud.
"And those men who are with him who are they?" cried he. "The two tiger-killers," replied Baraja. A short deliberation took place in a low voice between Don Estevan and Pedro Diaz, which ended by these words, pronounced aloud: "We must destroy the bridge of the Salto de Agua, and the devil is in it if they overtake us before we reach Tubac;" and at this they all set off at full gallop.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking