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A few strokes carried him across the stream; and, climbing out on the opposite bank, he sprang after his retreating foe. The zambo had by this time got full two hundred yards in the advance, but before he had run two hundred more, there was not half that distance between them. There was no comparison in their speed.
This line of vessels being primarily for freight the "Sandakan" has accommodations for less than twenty first-cabin passengers, and it probably seldom has anything like a full list on this out-of-the-way run from "Zambo" to Singapore. So far as its accommodations go, however, they are excellent, and a pleasanter trip of a week or ten days would be hard to find, in spite of the tropical heat.
But the long cactus-strewn levels still stretched away, empty and bare, to the distant line of the cane-brake. "They will soon come now, Massa Malone. Before another week pass Indian come back and bring rope and fetch you down." Such was the cheery cry of our excellent Zambo.
The bay of the hound was satisfactory evidence of the presence of the yellow hunter, and of course the zambo was along with him. Carlos knew of no other bloodhound in the settlement the one heard must be that of the mulatto. For some minutes he remained by the rocks, considering what course he had best take. "I'll ride on to the grove," reflected he, "and hide in it till Antonio comes.
I have seen Guaiqueries and pilots of the Zambo caste, who could find the pole-star by the direction of the pointers alpha and beta of the Great Bear, and they seemed to me to steer less from the view of the pole-star itself, than from the line drawn through these stars.
"Si, padre, con mucho gusto," I answered, mimicking the deep guttural of the zambo. "Good! I shall expect you in a few minutes," said the soldier. "Buene noche, padre!" "Good-night, my son." "Now for the sentry," murmured Carmen; "luckily we have the password, otherwise it might be awkward." "We must try to slip past him." But it was not to be.
All these things Roblado might have seen by entering the hut; but he did not enter, as the men he was in search of chanced to be outside the mulatto lying stretched along the ground, and the zambo swinging in a hammock between two trees, according to the custom of his native country the coast-lands of the tierra caliente.
Again the feeling of vague horror came upon our souls, and we gazed round with frightened eyes at the dark shadows which lay around us, in all of which some fearsome shape might be lurking. How good it was when we were hailed by the voice of Zambo, and, going to the edge of the plateau, saw him sitting grinning at us upon the top of the opposite pinnacle.
In a moment more his whole body was drawn through, and appeared in a recumbent position within the glade. The head and body of the zambo followed; and both now glided silently over the grass in the direction of the sleeper. Flat upon their bellies, like a pair of huge lizards, they moved, one following in the other's trail! The mulatto was in the advance.
Un Zambo Muerto!" the group opened, and we saw, lying dead upon the ground, one of our horrible antagonists of the preceding night. "Good God, what is that?" cried Rowley and I, with one breath. "Un demonio! a devil!" "Perdonen vos, Senores Un Zambo mono muy terribles los Zambos. Terrible monkeys these Zambos." "Monkeys!" cried I.
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