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See, the back of the latter is bleeding and torn from the rough branches beneath which the tapir has carried it." As he spoke, the animals came close to us, the tapir making for the thick branch of a fallen tree kept up by a network of sipos, which hung like a beam almost horizontally a few feet from the ground.
Of course these were the very passages she proceeded to search for straight away. Meanwhile Mr. Demetrius also had drawn a packet of papers from underneath the cushions of his sofa and handed them to Mr. Sipos. "Then you do not advise me to give Henrietta to Baron Hátszegi to wife? Good!
He it was who came forth from the sumac grove wounded by Halberger's bullet, and the wound has proved fatal; this accounting for the pieces of sipos seen at their camping-place. Another change in the composition of the party is, that the white man, Valdez, is no longer with it.
He walked forward so rapidly that we sometimes had difficulty in keeping up with him; and I remarked, more than I had done before, his strange appearance, as he flourished his sharp axe, now striking on one side, now on the other, at the sipos and vines which interfered with his progress.
The Indians, hearing my voice, came towards me, and cut down some long thin sipos, at the end of which they formed a running noose. Thus prepared, they boldly advanced towards the creature, and one of them throwing up the noose, adroitly caught it round the neck. The others, taking the end, gave it a sudden jerk, and down it came to the ground.
One of the most curious features in a Brazilian forest is the vegetable cordage, or sipos, which hang down from every branch, like slack ropes from the rigging of a ship. Jerry and I several times could not resist having a good swing on them, while the doctor was hunting about for his specimens. Their roots are in the ground.
To satisfy John, we all shouted at the top of our voices again and again; but no reply came. We were going to get into the canoe, when Duppo showed us that we might prepare it with a little contrivance for encountering the rougher water of the river. Some sipos were near.
They then, fastening some sipos round the bodies, dragged them and the hog to the camp. I had just time to measure one of them, before they were skinned and cut up. It had a body four feet in length; and a tail two and a half feet long, black at the tip, but without the characteristic tuft of the lion. Its limbs were very thick and muscular, to enable it to climb trees and spring a great distance.
John Lapussa must needs call upon Mr. Sipos. He was wearing mourning in his hat and tried hard to lend his face a funereal appearance also. "Have you heard the news?" he asked. Mr. Sipos had heard nothing. "Don't you see the mourning in my hat? Alas! my poor niece, unhappy Henrietta!" "Well, what has happened?" "Hátszegi has been drowned in the Maros." "Impossible, he was a first-rate swimmer."
He sees fragments of cut sipos and bits of raw-hide thong the overplus left after packing. Though no longer alarmed for the safety of the Indians, he is, nevertheless, still surprised and perplexed. What could have taken them away from the tolderia, and whither can they have gone?
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