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I tracked up this herd for nearly a mile, when I observed them behind a large bush; some were lying down and others were standing. A buck and doe presently quitted the herd, and advancing a few paces from the bush they halted, and evidently winded me. I was screening myself behind a small tree, and the open ground between me and the game precluded the possibility of a nearer approach.
"You haven't heard, of course?" he jerked out breathlessly. "Beastly bad news! Those hill tribes always up to some devilry! Poor old Phil infernal luck!" "What?" exclaimed Audrey. "What has happened to him? Tell me, quick, quick!" She turned as white as paper, and Devereux cursed himself for a clumsy fool. "It may not be the worst," he gasped back. "Dash it! I'm so winded!
"Once when a crowd of us went to visit 'im, 'e ran up this tr'il a'ead of us, and when we arrived all winded, blow me up a bloomin' gum-tree if 'e 'ad n't a mess of feis and breadfruit cooked for us." We came to a sign on the trail. "Tapu," it said, which means taboo, or keep away; and farther on a notice in French that the owner forbade any one to enter upon his land.
But a little after these were lit, a great horn was winded close without, and thereafter came the clatter of arms about the door, and exceeding tall weaponed men came in, one score and five, and strode two by two up to the foot of the dais, and stood there in a row.
Suddenly the jaguar, attracted either by some slight movement on the part of Ned or Tom, or perhaps by having winded them, turned his head quickly and gazed with cruel eyes straight at the spot where the two young men stood behind the bushes. "He's seen us," whispered Ned. "Yes," assented Tom. "And it's a perfect shot. Hope I don't miss!"
It had its little garden, where some fruit-trees and bushes were mingled with kitchen herbs; a cow and six sheep fed in a paddock hard by; the cock strutted and crowed, and summoned his family around him before the door; a heap of brushwood and turf, neatly made up, indicated that the winter fuel was provided; and the thin blue smoke which ascended from the straw-bound chimney, and winded slowly out from among the green trees, showed that the evening meal was in the act of being made ready.
Sometimes it winded through an open, level tract of fine grazing land, and then it again diverged through forests so thick and deep, that the light of the moon was unable to penetrate the gloom, and they were frequently left in comparatively midnight darkness.
At first it seemed as if such huge, unwieldy carcasses could not run very fast; but in a few minutes they managed to get up a pace that put the horses to their mettle. Indeed, at first it seemed as if the hunters did not gain an inch; but by degrees they closed with them, for buffaloes are not long winded. On nearing the herd, the three men diverged from each other and selected their animals.
"That was a felon stroke!" exclaimed the Black Knight, as the steed fell to the earth, bearing his rider along with him. And at this moment, Wamba winded the bugle, for the whole had passed so speedily, that he had not time to do so sooner.
This enabled the fleeing ones to gain the entrance to the temple, and soon they were outside. "To the ship!" yelled Bill. "There's little danger now!" called Andy, panting, for the run had winded him. "They will hardly attack us in the light!" And he was right, for, though they could hear the bats flying about inside the temple, and uttering their cries, none came outside.
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