Through Five Republics On Horseback Being An Account Of Many Wanderings In South America By G. Whitfield Ray
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I Thought That It Was Much More Likely For Him To Kill Me Than I Him, And I Set His Mind At Rest About The Reward, For On The Spot I Gave Him The Coveted Articles.

On receipt of those luxuries his doubts of me fled, and I soon assured him that I had no intention whatever of taking his life.

Towards noon we started off, and, winding our way through the Indian paths in single file, we again soon left behind us all signs of man, and saw nothing to mark that any had passed that way before.

That night, as we sat under a large silk-cotton tree silently eating supper off plates of palm leaves, the old chief suddenly threw down his meat, and, with a startled expression, said, "I hear spirits!" Never having heard such ethereal visitors myself, I smiled incredulously, whereupon the old savage glared at me, and, leaving his food upon the ground went away out of the firelight into the darkness. Afraid that he might take one of the horses and return to his people, I followed to soothe him, but his offended mood did not pass until, as he said, the spirits had gone.

On the third day scarcity of water began to be felt. We had been slowly ascending the rugged steeps of a mountain, and as the day wore on the thirst grew painful. That night both we and the horses had to be content with the dew-drops we sucked from the grass, and our dumb companions showed signs of great exhaustion.

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