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She knows of all the relationships which exist between them and the Tovas tribe, and knows something of why her father fled from his old home; that is, she believes it to have been through fear of El Supremo, the "bogie" of every Paraguayan child, boy or girl.
For in the Chaco are various communities of Indians, often at deadly feud with one another. Though such conjecture seems improbable, the thing is yet possible; and to assure himself, Halberger at length resolves upon going over to the tolderia of the Tovas. Ordering his horse saddled, he mounts, and is about to ride off alone, when a sweet voice salutes him, saying:
A few of the men may also be observed moving about, or standing in groups on the open ground adjoining the malocca; but at this hour most of them are on horseback out upon the adjacent plain, there galloping to and fro, gathering their flocks and herds, and driving them towards the corrals; these flocks and herds composed of horned cattle, sheep, and goats the Tovas Indians being somewhat of a pastoral people.
Your affair is yonder," he nods towards the muffled figure on the pony's back; "and you can now choose between taking her home to her mother her handsome cousin as well or carrying her to your home, as the queen that is to be of the Tovas." The young cacique is not slow in deciding which course to pursue. The allusion to the "handsome cousin" again excites his jealousy and his ire.
The sun has gone down over the Gran Chaco, and its vast grassy plains and green palm-groves are again under the purple of twilight. The scene we are about to depict is upon the Pilcomayo's bank, some twenty miles above the old tomeria of the Tovas Indians, and therefore thirty from the house of Ludwig Halberger now his no more, but a house of mourning.
The feathered manta of the young chief, with its bright gaudy sheen, has caught her eye, and she knows whose shoulders it should be covering. "Yes, father," she says, in whisper, as soon as sighting it. "They are the Tovas! See yonder! one of the two leading that's Aguara." "Oh! then, we've nothing to fear," rejoins her father, with a feeling of relief.
Or ride in among the bushes, and there remain under cover till the Indians have passed? If these should prove to be Tovas, they could discover themselves and join them; if not, then take the chances of travelling behind them, and getting back home unobserved.
There he will find a shipping port in direct commerce with Buenos Ayres, and so beyond the jurisdiction of Paraguay's Dictator. For the aristocratic Tovas Indians have their bondsmen, just as the Caffres, or Arab merchants of Africa. Nearly three years have elapsed since the naturalist became established in his new quarters, and his collection has grown to be a large one.
He had been told that at some thirty leagues from the mouth of the latter stream, was the tolderia of the Tovas Indians. And truly told; since before sunset of the second day he succeeded in reaching it, there to be received amicably, as he had anticipated.
"Let me go, tio?" puts in Cypriano, with impressive eagerness, his eyes turned towards his cousin as though he did not at all relish the thought of her visiting the Tovas village without his being along with her. "And me, too?" also requests Ludwig, the son, who is two years older than his sister. "No, neither of you," rejoins the father. "Ludwig, you would not leave your mother alone?
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