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Who, by the commonest rules of war, will march in the front? Answer me." "The mounted host of mailed knights." "True. They are thirty thousand strong. Acres deep they will march. Now, observe: none but they will ever strike the sand-belt! Then there will be an episode! Immediately after, the civilian multitude in the rear will retire, to meet business engagements elsewhere.
"The canoes now separated; and in a short while each of them were seen coursing quietly along the edge of some islet, one of its occupants leaning inward, and scrutinising the narrow belt of sand that bordered the water. "In some places no such sand-belt appeared. The trees hung over, their branches even dipping into the current, and forming a roofed and dark passage underneath.
Indeed, these short and sometimes disconnected sentences are the only real record of the grim tragedy that followed. The little caravan got through the sand-belt safely in six days, and without further alarms from the Bushmen. Then came stony kopjes with stunted bush, and here and there traces of game and lions. Water could not be far off.
Suddenly we heard the blare of trumpets; the slow walk burst into a gallop, and then well, it was wonderful to see! Down swept that vast horse-shoe wave it approached the sand-belt my breath stood still; nearer, nearer the strip of green turf beyond the yellow belt grew narrow narrower still became a mere ribbon in front of the horses then disappeared under their hoofs. Great Scott!
Give him a patch of pine-scrub or a bit of poor soil in a sand-belt and he'd feel it his duty to cultivate it, no matter how much work it cost. Show him good wheat land lying vacant or rocks that block a railroad, and he won't rest till he starts the gang-plow or gets to work with giant-powder. He can't help it; the thing's born in him. Like liquor or gambling, only cleaner!"
Who, by the commonest rules of war, will march in the front? Answer me." "The mounted host of mailed knights." "True. They are thirty thousand strong. Acres deep they will march. Now, observe: none but they will ever strike the sand-belt! Then there will be an episode! Immediately after, the civilian multitude in the rear will retire, to meet business engagements elsewhere.
Suddenly we heard the blare of trumpets; the slow walk burst into a gallop, and then well, it was wonderful to see! Down swept that vast horse-shoe wave it approached the sand-belt my breath stood still; nearer, nearer the strip of green turf beyond the yellow belt grew narrow narrower still became a mere ribbon in front of the horses then disappeared under their hoofs. Great Scott!
True, it is watered by rain from time to time; but the drops sink in so fast that in half an hour, as we know, the entire strip is as dry as Sahara again. Now there are many shore weeds of this intermediate sand-belt which mimic to a surprising degree the chief external features of the cactuses.
This sand-belt is passable at one or two points, but horses sink to the knees at every step, and but for the water it would be a perilous experiment to cross it. Where is the Llano Estacado? Unroll your map of North America. You will perceive a large river called the Canadian rising in the Rocky Mountains, and running, first southerly, and then east, until it becomes part of the Arkansas.
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