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Taking with me my thirty-two dollars and double-barreled gun in fact, my whole fortune I intrusted myself to this friend, whose acquaintance I had just made. His little habitation was delightfully situated, in the cool shadow of the palm and yang-yang immense trees, whose flowers spread around a delicious perfume. Two charming Indian girls were the Eves of this paradise.
These words put an end to my fears, and I soon had an opportunity of seeing that the Indian had taken me under his protection. If any of my readers for whom I write these souvenirs feel the same desire as I experienced to visit the cascades of Tierra-Alta, let them go to a place called Yang-Yang; it was near this spot where my Indian protector resided.
At the sound of her shrewish 'yang-yang' down came the old man from the bank, and so one dog fetched out the lot. The three were exactly alike somehow.
The next day I arrived at Manilla, still thinking of the cool shade of the palm and the perfumed flowers of the yang-yang. My first impulse was to go to the quay; but, alas! the Cultivateur had sailed, and I had the misery of beholding her already far away in the horizon, moving sluggishly before a gentle breeze towards the mouth of the bay.
I will now return to the recital I have just interrupted. When I had left the bandits at Yang-Yang, I pulled up my horses and bethought me of Anna. I was anxious to know what impression had been produced on her mind from this unpleasant encounter.
There is an old story about the stick that would not beat the dog, and the dog would not bite the pig, and so on; and so I am quite sure that ill-natured cur could never have lived with that 'yang-yang' shrew, nor could any one else but he have turned the gear of the hatch, nor have endured the dog and the woman, and the constant miasma from the stagnant waters.
What beautiful sights are offered to the eyes of man by the all-powerful hands of the Creator! And how often have I remarked that the works of nature are far superior to those that men tire themselves to erect and invent! As we went one morning to the cascades we were about to alight at Yang-Yang, when all at once our carriage was surrounded with brigands, flying from the soldiers of the line.
Meanwhile the captain is superintending firing arrangements. "Are the first details ready to begin?" he shouts. "Quite ready, sir," runs the reply down the firing line. The Captain now comes to the telephone himself. He takes the receiver from Cockerell with masterful assurance. "Hallo, there!" he calls. "I want to speak to Captain Wagstaffe." "Honkle yang-yang?" inquires a ghostly voice.
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