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Updated: June 24, 2025
There were idle hours by the sea, little excursions in a sail-boat to Penmark, and at last to Point du Raz. It was a beautiful day, with a gentle breeze, and the point was glorified. The boat ran in lightly between the steep dark shore and the comb of reef that looked like a host of stealthy pumas crumbling the water. They anchored in the Bay des Trepasses.
He saw faces about him for an instant shaggy wild Breton faces but they dropped away, he knew not where. The current kept driving him inshore. As in a dream, he could hear the breakers the pumas on their tread-mill of death. How long would it last? How long before he would be beaten upon that tread-mill fondled to death by those mad paws? Presently dreams came-kind, vague, distant dreams.
This is the chief of the many perils of the woods. Like crouching pumas the instruments of a man's destruction poise on the spring, sometimes for days. Then swiftly, silently, the leap is made. It is a danger unavoidable, terrible, ever-present.
He begged at first and cried. But I was hard. He got wild, and at last when I leave him he cursed! It was like nothing I ever heard. He was a devil... I come back after I have carry the message to the poor girl it is a sad thing to see the first great grief of the young! Gawdor was not there. The pumas and others had been with him. "There was more to do.
But before the first year was out, they yearned very much to return to civilisation, and this desire was very natural. But there were other reasons that influenced them besides the mere ennui of the wilderness. The lives of themselves and their children were constantly in danger from jaguars, pumas, and poisonous reptiles. Even man himself might at any moment appear as their destroyer.
A few of them had been lamed, and all were more or less marked by the wounds received from jaguars and pumas. "You expected me, Ignacio?" said Pedro, after the first greetings were over. "No not quite so soon, but I chanced to be wandering about in the mountains, and came down to take a look at the old place, to see that all was right.
Until the habit of scientific accuracy in observation and record is achieved and until specimens are preserved and carefully compared, entirely truthful men, at home in the wilderness, will whole-heartedly accept, and repeat as matters of gospel faith, theories which split the grizzly and black bears of each locality in the United States, and the lions and black rhinos of South Africa, or the jaguars and pumas of any portion of South America, into several different species, all with widely different habits.
He begged at first and cried. But I was hard. He got wild, and at last when I leave him he cursed! It was like nothing I ever heard. He was a devil. . . I come back after I have carry the message to the poor girl it is a sad thing to see the first great grief of the young! Gawdor was not there. The pumas and others had been with him. "There was more to do.
She was about to speak again, but the guide suddenly said: "You must get away. There'll be a change of wind and a bad cross-current soon." In a few minutes the two were bearing out none too soon, for those pumas crowded up once or twice within a fathom of their deck, devilish and devouring. But they wore away with a capricious current, and down a tossing sea made for Audierne.
Turning a point of rock, we saw before us, in a hollow on the side of the mountain a shallow cavern overgrown with shrubs, into which the moon shone brightly not only one, but two huge pumas, the nearest with its paws on the hog it had just stolen. We had formed our camp close to their lair. The savage brutes, thus brought to bay, and unable to escape, snarled fiercely at us.
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