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The cracking of dead sticks, and the loud rustling among the bushes, told that he was pressing through the grove in headlong flight. These noises had ceased so, too, the echo of hoofs which for a while came back from the galloping horse of the cibolero. Where were they now zambo and cibolero? Had they fled from each other?
It appeared to be the body of a man, prostrate and asleep. "Santisima, it is!" replied the zambo. "Snug by the fire too. He is a fool! but, sure enough, he could have no thought of our following him in a night so dark as this." "Hwish, dam! dog not there, guero ours! No more talk, boy Pepe! follow me!"
The following night, Humboldt and his party were entertained by a jaguar hunter, half-naked, and as brown as a Zambo, who prided himself on being of the European race; and called his wife and daughter, who were as slightly clothed as himself, Donna Isabella and Donna Manuela.
His report was that he had seen them near a grove upon the Pecos, that they were torn by the wolves and vultures but that what still remained of their dress and equipments enabled him to make out who they were for the hatero had chanced to know these men personally. He was sure they were the mulatto and Zambo, the hunters of the mission.
The Indians were to have the remainder as a reward for their services and as payment for taking our letters back to the Amazon. Some hours later we saw them in single file far out upon the plain, each with a bundle on his head, making their way back along the path we had come. Zambo occupied our little tent at the base of the pinnacle, and there he remained, our one link with the world below.
His dress partook of the character of his tribe wide trousers of coarse cotton stuff, with a sleeveless shirt of the same material, a waist scarf, and coarse serape. Half the upper part of his body was nude, and his thick copper-coloured arms were quite bare. Roblado arrived just in time to witness the finale of an incident that would serve to illustrate the character of the zambo.
Its colour, in fact, is somewhat of the hue of the half-blood Indian and Negro, hence the marimonda is known in some parts of Spanish America by the name of "mono zambo," or "zambo" monkey a "zambo" being the descendant of Indian and Negro parents.
Its colour, in fact, is somewhat of the hue of the half-blood Indian and Negro, hence the marimonda is known in some parts of Spanish America by the name of "mono zambo," or "zambo" monkey a "zambo" being the descendant of Indian and Negro parents.
The zambo also leaped to his feet; and, believing the shot had come from the pretended sleeper, precipitated himself upon the latter, knife in hand, and drove his blade with desperate earnestness into the side of the prostrate form.
The zambo took his station according to the plan they had agreed upon; while the yellow hunter, bloodhound in hand, remained by the entrance of the cave. In a few moments the latter was seen to start up with a gesture of alarm. "Dam!" he exclaimed. "Dam! told you so till lost ready, boy Pepe dog on our trail!" "Carajo, Man'l! what's to be done?" eagerly inquired the zambo.
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