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At length the wind, still keenly cold, is accompanied by a sleety rain, which pours upon them in torrents, chill as if coming direct from the snowy slopes of the Cordilleras as in all likelihood it does. They know that this is a sign of the tormenta approaching its end, which soon after arrives; terminating almost as abruptly as it had begun.
Nor had there, for the tormenta, like cyclones and hurricanes, is often local, its blast having a well-defined border. Riding out upon this tract more pleasant for a traveller they make a momentary halt, but still remaining in their saddles, as they gaze inquiringly over it. And here Cypriano, recalling a remark which Gaspar had made at their last camping-place, asks an explanation of it.
The dust disappears from the sky, that which has settled on the ground now covering its surface with a thick coating of mud converted into this by the rain while the sun again shines forth in all its glory, in a sky bright and serene as if cloud had never crossed it! The tormenta is over, or has passed on to another part of the great Chaco plain.
Possibly, also, their experience of the tormenta, which must have been something terrible on that exposed plain, had rendered them careless as to their mode of marching. Whatever the cause, they now, taking up their trail, do not pause to speculate upon it, nor make any delay.
Carramba! they're ugly devils to look at, and still uglier to have dealings with; that is, when one's in the water alongside them as we ourselves know. Still they don't always behave so bad, as these did to-day. When I crossed this stream before, with the dueno, neither he nor I felt the slightest shock to tell of eels being in it. I suppose it's the tormenta that's set them a stirring.
For not only does the tormenta carry dust with it, but sand, sticks, and stones, some of the latter so large and sharp as often to inflict severe wounds. Something besides in that now assailing them; which sweeping across the salitral has lifted the sulphureous efflorescence, that beats into their eyes bitter and blinding as the smoke of tobacco.
No track there, no sign to show, that either horses or men ever passed up the Pilcomayo's bank. "Caspita!" exclaims the gaucho, in spiteful tone. "It is as I anticipated; blind as an old mule with a tapojo over its eyes. May the fiends take that tormenta!"
Mitford make this strange blunder? The most charitable supposition is, that, not reading the Greek, he was misled by an error of punctuation in the Latin version. "Qui cum per tormenta conscios caedis nominare cogeretur," etc. Herodotus says they were both Gephyraeans by descent; a race, according to him, originally Phoenician. Herod. b. v., c. 57. Mr.
On the night of that same day, when the tormenta overtook them, Aguara and his party approach the Sacred town, which is about twenty miles from the edge of the salitral, where the trail parts from the latter, going westward.
From his tower of ten stages, which commanded the fountain, Caesar continually harassed with darts, thrown by the tormenta, those who came to the spring; and he, moreover, tells us that he caused a gallery to be tunnelled to the fountainhead, and thus drew off the water, to the utter astonishment and despair of the Cadurci, who perceived in this disaster the intervention of the gods.
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