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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty seven, seven and nine Years Among the Comanches
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Speaker 1: The escape turning in the direction of the mountain, we
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Speaker 1: put our horses into a hard run, and in a
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Speaker 1: few moments were tearing our way through the mesquite bushes
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Speaker 1: that fringed its base. The undergrowth became denser as we advanced,
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Speaker 1: and it was found advisable to abandon the ponies and
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Speaker 1: forge ahead on foot. The safety of our party depended
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Speaker 1: in a great measure on the celerity of our movements.
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Speaker 1: Hastily dismounting and tying the cattle to some thirty sage bushes,
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Speaker 1: we continued our ascent, and it was not many minutes
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Speaker 1: before we had reached a portion of the mountain that
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Speaker 1: shelved out over the ravine, thus forming an admirable position
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Speaker 1: for the signal operations. My companion briefly explained the method
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Speaker 1: of smoke signals, which were made by gathering a quantity
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Speaker 1: of very dry underbrush for the fire and green twigs
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Speaker 1: boughs of pine, balsam and hemlock, being placed upon the
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Speaker 1: blazing wood, covers the flame and throws off a dense
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Speaker 1: smoke that may be seen at great distances. After ascertaining
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Speaker 1: his views and receiving my instructions, I plunged into the
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Speaker 1: wood and busied myself collecting materials for our telegraph operations.
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Speaker 1: It was not long before we had a sufficient quantity
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Speaker 1: of material gathered, and placing the dry wood in such
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Speaker 1: a manner that it might be easily ignited. My companion
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Speaker 1: produced his tender apparatus and was soon at work drilling
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Speaker 1: the block of hard wood and frantically endeavoring to coax
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Speaker 1: a spark that might set the pile in a blaze.
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Speaker 1: As few, if any, of my readers understand the method
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Speaker 1: by which Indians light their fires, I will hastily describe it.
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Speaker 1: The Indian is unfamiliar with the use of matches. Even
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Speaker 1: the more primitive flint and steel is a sealed book
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Speaker 1: to him. Hence he resorts to a very simple but
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Speaker 1: laborious contrivance. Each Indian supplies himself with two dried stalks
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Speaker 1: of the Mexican soap plant, about three fourths of an
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Speaker 1: inch diameter. One is made flat on one side. Near
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Speaker 1: the edge of the flat surface. A small indentation is
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Speaker 1: made to receive the point of the other stick, and
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Speaker 1: a groove cut from this down the side. The other
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Speaker 1: stick is made with a rounded end and placed upright
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Speaker 1: upon the first, placing the stick with a flat surface
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Speaker 1: between the feet. The point of the other is placed
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Speaker 1: in the hole made to receive it, and turning it
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Speaker 1: between the palms with a backward and forward motion, and
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Speaker 1: pressing the point forcibly into the lower stick. A fine
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Speaker 1: powder is made which runs through the groove and falls
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Speaker 1: on the ground by constant and rapid motion. The wood
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Speaker 1: begins to smoke, and at length the fine particles take fire.
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Speaker 1: The spark is soon nursed into a flame and the
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Speaker 1: brush wood ignited. In this manner, our fire was lighted
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Speaker 1: and heaping up the pine and hemlock boughs. The surrounding
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Speaker 1: atmosphere was one dense cloud of smoke, stealing to the
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Speaker 1: very edge of the cliff. I peered over and anxiously
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Speaker 1: scanned the plane below. I could see stone Hawan's band
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Speaker 1: fighting desperately with their foes, who, by their superior numbers,
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Speaker 1: were overpowering the comanches. Immediately behind the belt of timber
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Speaker 1: and to the left of the contending factions was the
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Speaker 1: party comprising the band under the leadership of his so Ditchaw.
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Speaker 1: They were moving cautiously around the timber and had not
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Speaker 1: as yet observed the signal. Once more, the signal was worked,
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Speaker 1: this time sending up a denser cloud than before. It
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Speaker 1: was observed by the ambushed party. They drew rein and
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Speaker 1: after a hasty consultation, turned and retraced their steps. The
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Speaker 1: movement was not executed any too soon, as the main
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Speaker 1: party were retreating before the successful assault of the enemy,
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Speaker 1: and endeavoring to gain the friendly cover of the wood.
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Speaker 1: Hissodecha pressed rapidly forward and, emerging on the plane, swooped
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Speaker 1: down upon the flank of the victorious Irapa hose. This
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Speaker 1: sudden movement entirely changed the aspect of affairs. The Irapa
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Speaker 1: Hose fell back precipitately in the direction of the ravine,
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Speaker 1: hoping by the means to gain shelter, and if the
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Speaker 1: worst came to the worst, disband and scatter over the mountain.
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Speaker 1: It was a thrilling scene, and I almost wished I
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Speaker 1: was one among them. Our mission was accomplished, and my
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Speaker 1: companion intimated that we should descend the mountain and join
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Speaker 1: the war party. As we descended, the comanche preceded me,
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Speaker 1: pushing his way through the bushes with a rapidity only
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Speaker 1: acquired by long practice. Suddenly the thought flashed across my
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Speaker 1: mind that now, if ever was my golden opportunity, what
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Speaker 1: would there be to prevent my braining the Indian in
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Speaker 1: his tracks and then escape. It was a savage and
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Speaker 1: brutal alternative, to be sure, but it was my only chance,
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Speaker 1: and I might wait years in vain before another opportunity
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Speaker 1: would present itself. As I resolved this scheme in my mind,
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Speaker 1: my hand went instinctively to my belt and grasped the tomahawk.
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Speaker 1: I trembled with excitement, and as if to keep pace
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Speaker 1: with my thoughts, my steps quickened, and a few strides
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Speaker 1: brought me close upon my victim. My quicken, labored breathing
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Speaker 1: must have attracted his attention, as suddenly, wheeling, he confronted me,
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Speaker 1: and evidently read the murderous intention in my eye. He
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Speaker 1: sprang lightly to one side, and, unsheathing his knife, stood
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Speaker 1: as if expecting an attack. Simultaneously with this action, I
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Speaker 1: drew my tomahawk and rushed upon him, aiming up below
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Speaker 1: at his head. He ajointly parried with his arm, but
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Speaker 1: in doing so received a severe wound in the shoulder.
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Speaker 1: Darting at me, he clutched my arm, and, twining his
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Speaker 1: limbs about my person, made a desperate endeavor to bring
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Speaker 1: me to the ground. The tomahawk was of no use now.
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Speaker 1: I allowed it to fall from my grasp, and, with
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Speaker 1: the disengaged hand, clutched my knife. My antagonist's superior strength
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Speaker 1: began to tell I felt powerless, and his eyes gleamed
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Speaker 1: with fiendish triumph. He raised a shining blade reparatory to
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Speaker 1: sheathing it in my body. When I suddenly felt the
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Speaker 1: ground giving way beneath my feet, and in less time
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Speaker 1: than it takes to relate it, we were rolling over
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Speaker 1: a precipice with a sheer fall of about ten feet.
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Speaker 1: The savage clung to me with a deathlike grip, and,
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Speaker 1: encircling my neck with his arm, grasped my throat with
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Speaker 1: his teeth. Those were fearful moments. I struggled to disengage
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Speaker 1: my hand from his vice like grip. The blood gurgled
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Speaker 1: from my mouth. My tongue protruded, and I was gasping
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Speaker 1: for breath in the last rose of strangulation. When we
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Speaker 1: came to the ground with a terrific shock, the savage
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Speaker 1: gave one yell that curdled my blood, and instantly relaxed
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Speaker 1: his hold, Falling limp and lifeless by my side. I
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Speaker 1: was not many minutes in disengaging myself from my antagonist,
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Speaker 1: and in doing so I was made aware of the
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Speaker 1: cause of the sudden turn of events that had saved
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Speaker 1: me a horrible death. It would appear that during the
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Speaker 1: struggle and fall, the hand that grasped my knife was
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Speaker 1: encircled around the body of my foe, and when we
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Speaker 1: struck the ground, my body being uppermost, the knife had
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Speaker 1: been driven to the hilt into his back by the
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Speaker 1: force of the concussion. Everything now depended on the celerity
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Speaker 1: of my movements. The remainder of the party would no
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Speaker 1: doubt wonder at our long absence and dispatch runners to
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Speaker 1: seek the missing signal makers. It would require but a
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Speaker 1: glance at the prostrate form of their comrade to enable
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Speaker 1: them to realize the true state of affairs and to
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Speaker 1: make instant preparations to follow overtake the fugitive and met
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Speaker 1: out to him the reward of his perfidy. Hastily possessing
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Speaker 1: myself of what few arms I needed, and taking the
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Speaker 1: bag of parched corn that was suspended from the girdle
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Speaker 1: of the fallen savage, I made my way to where
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Speaker 1: the ponies were cased, and, springing on my animal, urged
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Speaker 1: him forward at the top of his speed, leading the
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Speaker 1: Indian's pony by the lariat attached to his bridle. My
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Speaker 1: plan was to strike out over the prairie in a
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Speaker 1: southerly direction, and, by traveling without cessation, endeavor to put
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Speaker 1: a wide gap between pursuer and pursued, and thus being
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Speaker 1: able to reach in safety some of the Mexican frontier towns.
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Speaker 1: I was certain that this plan was feasible from the
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Speaker 1: conversation I had heard from time to time among the
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Speaker 1: warriors of our band. Indeed, it was proposed by hisso
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Speaker 1: ducha to raid on some one of the pueblas if
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Speaker 1: they were unsuccessful in their attack on the Arapa hose As.
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Speaker 1: By this means, they would avoid the ignominy of returning
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Speaker 1: to the lodges of their people without being able to
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Speaker 1: display the fruits of a successful foray such as scalps, horses, captives,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. By riding my pony until he dropped from exhaustion,
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Speaker 1: and then availing myself of the fresh lead horse, I
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Speaker 1: could travel an immense distance without drawing rain. It was
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Speaker 1: growing dark when I started, and I had not traveled
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Speaker 1: far before the night closed in, and I had to
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Speaker 1: trust to the instinct of my horse to carry me
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Speaker 1: safely over the prairie. My horse was shaped by a
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Speaker 1: certain star that would keep me on the right trail
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Speaker 1: if I held it steadily in view. About midnight, I
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Speaker 1: halted in a small stream to water the horses and
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Speaker 1: hastily prepare for myself a small portion of the parched corn,
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Speaker 1: which was done by mixing a handful and a gourd
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Speaker 1: filled with water. This corn is invaluable to those who
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Speaker 1: wished to traverse long distances without being hampered with unnecessary luggage.
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Speaker 1: With a sack or gord of this article containing about
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Speaker 1: an half bushel, one can travel fifteen or twenty days
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Speaker 1: without other sustenance. On we sped the animals, straining every
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Speaker 1: muscle and nerve, their flanks, heaving and flecked with foam.
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Speaker 1: No sound broke upon the stillness of the night, save
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Speaker 1: the rapid hoofstrokes of the mustangs, and occasionally the yelp
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Speaker 1: of a coyote that was startled in his midnight pride
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Speaker 1: by our sudden and rapid advance. Directly in my course
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Speaker 1: loomed up a huge mound, and further on, the dark
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Speaker 1: forms of a range of low hills were outlined upon
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Speaker 1: the horizon. I concluded to push on and gain their shelter.
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Speaker 1: Once within their protecting shadow, I could pursue my course
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Speaker 1: more leisurely and without the fear of immediate detection. My
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Speaker 1: grand anxiety was to hide or blind the trail, and
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Speaker 1: by this means baffle the sleuth hounds, who were by
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Speaker 1: this time in full pursuit. I had not proceeded far
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Speaker 1: when the pony came to a sudden halt, which almost
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Speaker 1: unseated me. I tried to urge him forward by word
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Speaker 1: and action, but it was of no avail. He refused
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Speaker 1: to move and stood trembling like an aspen. Leaning forward
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Speaker 1: and peering over his neck, I discovered, to my dismay,
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Speaker 1: a wide chasm, which fully explained why the mustang had
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Speaker 1: refused to be urged forward. The banks on either side
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Speaker 1: were quite level, and no indentations or ruggedness marked the
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Speaker 1: line of separation. One could ride up to its very
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Speaker 1: brink without being aware of a break in the prairie level.
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Speaker 1: I had thus come upon one of those barankas the
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Speaker 1: result of volcanic action that are so frequently met within
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Speaker 1: this country. There was no alternative but to ride along
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Speaker 1: its edge until I came to a point where its
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Speaker 1: sides were depressed to the level of the plane. This,
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Speaker 1: of course, involved a long detour and a consequent loss
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Speaker 1: of valuable time. My only consolation was in the reflection
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Speaker 1: that my enemies, in following the trail, would be compelled
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Speaker 1: to resort to the same tactics. I had journeyed down
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Speaker 1: its banks about three miles before I found an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to cross. As I reached the opposite side, I turned
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Speaker 1: and looked back away to my right and in the
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Speaker 1: direction from whence I came. I discerned a number of
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Speaker 1: dark specks on the horizon, which filled me with the
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Speaker 1: direst apprehensions. These dark objects were doubtless the forms of
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Speaker 1: my pursuers, who had it would seem, traveled with the
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Speaker 1: celerity almost equaling my own. The chase now assumed a
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Speaker 1: desperate aspect. Before me lay life, hope and freedom. Behind
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Speaker 1: was a nemesis that represented captivity, torture, and death. I
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Speaker 1: plied the whip vigorously to the flank of my jaded
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Speaker 1: steed in the frantic endeavor to reach the cover of
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Speaker 1: the mountain. I had not proceeded far on my course
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Speaker 1: when my pony showed unmistakable signs of giving out. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: I had not made more than a mile on my
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Speaker 1: course when the animal stopped abruptly. I could feel him
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Speaker 1: tremble under my weight and dropping on his knees. I
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Speaker 1: had scarcely time to leap to the ground before he fell, and,
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Speaker 1: drawing a deep sigh, he turned on his side and died.
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Speaker 1: Being absolutely ridden to death. I had no time to
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Speaker 1: waste in mourning the brave little animal that had carried
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Speaker 1: me thus far so faithfully. Robe was quickly transferred to
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Speaker 1: the other horse, and the flight resumed. Reaching the base
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Speaker 1: of the hills, I was so fortunate as to find water,
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Speaker 1: and throwing myself at the foot of a tall cottonwood,
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Speaker 1: with the lariat of the mustang attached to my wrist,
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Speaker 1: I determined to snatch an hour's rest of which both
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Speaker 1: my mustang and myself were very much in need. After
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Speaker 1: our long and arduous ride, I was awakened by a
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Speaker 1: violent pulling at my wrist caused by the horse and
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Speaker 1: trying to reach fresh grass. In a few moments, I
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Speaker 1: was up mounted and away once more in the direction
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Speaker 1: of the Mexican towns. Towards evening, I came to a
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Speaker 1: river of some magnitude. It was now the dry season,
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Speaker 1: and the stream was only a rivulet compared to what
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Speaker 1: I judged it must be, went swollen by the rains
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Speaker 1: and melting snows from adjacent mountains. I had, during the
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Speaker 1: latter part of my journey been casting about in my
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Speaker 1: mind a series of plans which would enable me to
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Speaker 1: blind my trail when low. Here was an opportunity that
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Speaker 1: surpassed my most sanguine expectations. To urge my horse into
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Speaker 1: the stream was the work of a moment, and then,
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Speaker 1: turning his head with the current, I continued the journey.
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Speaker 1: At times the water would brush the animal's flanks. Again,
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Speaker 1: it would suddenly shallow and scarcely cover his fetlocks. Occasionally
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Speaker 1: I would strike a deep hole and be obliged to
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Speaker 1: swim the animal some rods before reaching Terra Firma. These
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Speaker 1: irregularities in the river bed were due to its quick
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Speaker 1: ste formation, which was constantly shifting, shallowing here, deepening there,
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Speaker 1: and it would have been sure destruction to horse and
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Speaker 1: rider if we stopped for a moment in our tracks.
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Speaker 1: After journeying in this manner for about a mile, I
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Speaker 1: entered a cannon whose walls ascended to a height of
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Speaker 1: thousands of feet perpendicularly. On emerging from this gloomy pass,
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Speaker 1: a sight met my gaze that made me shout for joy.
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Speaker 1: Gaining the bank of the stream, I saw extended before
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Speaker 1: me waving fields of grain, and in the background the
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Speaker 1: modest spire of a little church, which was surmounted by
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Speaker 1: a gilt cross that fairly scintillated under the rays of
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Speaker 1: the noonday sun. I had arrived, then, at last within
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Speaker 1: the confines of civilization, and my career as a savage
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Speaker 1: was about to be abruptly terminated. As I pushed forward
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Speaker 1: along the road that skirted the green fields, and the
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Speaker 1: familiar sounds of former days fell upon my ears, the
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Speaker 1: tinkle of the cow bells, the busy hum that filled
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Speaker 1: the air like the whisper of early recollections wafted down
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Speaker 1: through the airy halls of time, made the scenes, trials
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Speaker 1: and sufferings appear but a horrid dream, and I seemed
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Speaker 1: to be just waking to reality. A glance at my
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Speaker 1: tattooed and painted form, however, soon brought me back to
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Speaker 1: a realizing sense of my position and set me to
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Speaker 1: reflecting how I should explain my presence in this hostile
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Speaker 1: guise to any chance inhabit it, to whom I might meet.
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Speaker 1: After much cogitation on the subject, I concluded it would
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Speaker 1: be best to ride boldly into the village and seeking
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Speaker 1: the alcade, explained my situation in as good Spanish as
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Speaker 1: my limited knowledge of the tongue would permit. I had
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Speaker 1: not gone far when I was encircled by a crowd
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Speaker 1: of bewildered and frantic Mexicans who were shouting indios who
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Speaker 1: lost Indios at the top of their squeaky voices, while
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Speaker 1: I made a running accompaniment to their remarks by holding
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Speaker 1: up my hands with a palm outstretched towards them and
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Speaker 1: shouting in my turn, Amigo. Reaching the plaza, I dismounted,
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Speaker 1: entered the canteena and called for a basin of water,
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Speaker 1: stripping the plumage from my head and relieving my body
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Speaker 1: of its meretrichius adornment. I plunged into the bath prepared
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Speaker 1: for me and came out an entirely different looking individual.
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Speaker 1: The news of my arrival had collected an eager and
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Speaker 1: enthusiastic multitude who filled the patio. I sat enthusiastic, but
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Speaker 1: all due allowance must be made for the natural and
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Speaker 1: inherited indolence of the Mexican. On emerging from the inn,
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Speaker 1: I was greeted with several shouts, and fifty people were
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Speaker 1: asking me questions in one breath, all bent on having
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Speaker 1: them answered in less than no time. I finally succeeded
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Speaker 1: in relating my history, adventures, and escape, and wound up
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Speaker 1: with an appeal to their charity, setting forth my utterly
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Speaker 1: destitute condition in the most glowing terms my exasperable Spanish
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Speaker 1: would permit. It was an animated scene. The men in
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Speaker 1: the checkered serape or striped blankets, conical sombreros with broad brims,
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Speaker 1: calzoneros of velveteen with rows of shiny buttons, and a
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Speaker 1: sash of gaudy color encircling their waists. The women were
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Speaker 1: no less conspicuous, draped in the graceful sebazo, the short
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Speaker 1: wagna and the finely embroidered chemisette. My appeal was not
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Speaker 1: met with that spontaneous generosity that I could have wished.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they contributed nothing, and as a last resort,
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Speaker 1: I was compelled to offer my horse for sale, which
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Speaker 1: venture was more successful, and I soon disposed of him
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Speaker 1: at a very fair price. I was now enabled to
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Speaker 1: buy the few articles of clothing that I was most
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Speaker 1: in need of, and after lingering a few hours in
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Speaker 1: the village, I concluded to push on towards Santa Fe
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Speaker 1: and the hope of falling in with some party of
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Speaker 1: traders or miners, and then trust to the Chapter of
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Speaker 1: Accidents for the rest fortune favor me and my designs.
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Speaker 1: As I soon had an opportunity to join a party
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Speaker 1: of Mexicans who were en route for the capital of
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Speaker 1: New Mexico on trading schemes and tent. I accompanied them
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Speaker 1: in the capacity of muleteer. Arriving in Santa Fe, I
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Speaker 1: immediately repaired to the largest inn, being attracted thither by
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Speaker 1: a number of uncouth characters in hunting shirts and slotch hats.
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Speaker 1: I entered unobtrusively and took a quiet survey of the scene.
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Speaker 1: The room was the cantena, and all were indulging impetations
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Speaker 1: more or less deep of alpasso whiskey. The atmosphere was
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Speaker 1: redolent of the fumes of tobacco, and commingled with the
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Speaker 1: shouts and coarse language of the men, was the shrill
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Speaker 1: treble of the women, who darted here and there through
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Speaker 1: the throng like sunbeams. I was attracted by one rude
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Speaker 1: specimen who seemed bent on getting up a fight. This
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Speaker 1: great rough fellow of six feet and over called a
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Speaker 1: trim little purblana to him with hey, you are my
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Speaker 1: little masatcha moose, and get me some of that out
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Speaker 1: of or pass good now and claire. Then, as the
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Speaker 1: liquor was produced, he offered the waiter quantity of money,
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Speaker 1: which was unhesitatingly accepted with a mutual bueno signor hoorah
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Speaker 1: for you. Come along. Let's lick her up all around
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Speaker 1: and have a dance. You're the gal for my beaver,
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Speaker 1: bully for old Missouri. Suddenly a pistol was discharged in
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Speaker 1: a remote corner of the room, and there was an
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Speaker 1: instantaneous rush in that quarter, succeeded by loud cries, Oh's blows, shooting,
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Speaker 1: din and confusion. Sick and weary of such scenes, I
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Speaker 1: left the canteena and, sallying forth into the plaza, wandered
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Speaker 1: down the street, not knowing where to go or what
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Speaker 1: was to become of me. I cared less end of
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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty seven,