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I must go out barefoot." "Of course. Who ever heard of a zambo turnkey wearing shoes? I will hide yours under my habit, and you can put them on afterward." "You are a friend of Carera's, of course?" "Yes; I am Salvador Carmen, the teniente of Colonel Mejia, at your service." "Salvador Carmen! A name of good omen. You are saving me." "I will either save you or perish with you. Take this dagger.
The zambo sat perfectly silent until she was close enough for his purpose, and then, suddenly raising the raw-hide, which he had hitherto held behind him, he laid it with all his strength over her back and shoulders. A thin chemisette was all that intervened to hinder the full severity of the blows, and these fell thick end fast, until the sufferer took courage and retreated out of reach!
Carlos fairly doubled upon his terrified antagonist, although the latter was doing his utmost. He knew that he was running for his life. Not ten minutes did the chase continue. Carlos drew near. The zambo heard his footsteps close behind. He felt it was idle to run any longer. He halted, and once more stood at bay. In another instant the two were face to face, within ten feet of each other!
For the moment we could only sit among the bushes in patience and wait the coming of Zambo. Presently his honest black face topped the rocks and his Herculean figure emerged upon the top of the pinnacle. "What I do now?" he cried. "You tell me and I do it." It was a question which it was easier to ask than to answer. One thing only was clear. He was our one trusty link with the outside world.
Were they flying from each other? The zambo had gone back in the same direction whence he had come. He had gone in a very different manner though. After disappearing behind the leafy screen, he had not halted, but rushed on like one terrified beyond the power of controlling himself.
In America and the West Indies we are familiar with the various mixtures of white and negro, mulatto, quadroon, &c.; but in Mexico we have three races, Spanish, pure Mexican, and Negro, which, with their combinations, make a list of twenty-five varieties of the human race, distinguishable from one another, and with regular names, which Mayer gives in his work on Mexico, such as mulatto, mestizo, zambo, chino, and so forth.
You find the guero, I promise you'll find no dog with him." "Hope so, boy Pepe try anyhow. Come!" Saying this, the yellow hunter straddled his horse, and followed by the zambo and the dogs commenced moving down the rocky channel of the ravine. Having arrived at the point where the horseman had been last seen, the mulatto dismounted, and called up the bloodhound.
I also drew up a note, to be given to any white merchant or captain of a steam-boat whom the Indian could find, imploring them to see that ropes were sent to us, since our lives must depend upon it. These documents I threw to Zambo in the evening, and also my purse, which contained three English sovereigns.
A pair of huge gaunt dogs trotted behind their horses' heels, fierce and savage-looking as their masters. One was the wolf-dog of the country, the other a Spanish bloodhound. "What road, Man'l?" inquired the zambo as they parted from the hut; "straight down to the Pecos?" "No, Pepe boy: must climb, go round. Seen making down valley, somebody guess what we're after send him word we're coming.
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