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Title: The Flying Horseman

Author: Gustave Aimard

Editor: Percy B. St. John

Release Date: April 15, 2014 [eBook #45403]

Language: English

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THE FLYING HORSEMAN

By

GUSTAVE AIMARD,

AUTHOR OF "GUIDE OF THE DESERT," "INSURGENT CHIEF," ETC., ETC.

REVISED AND EDITED BY PERCY B. ST. JOHN

LONDON: J. and R. MAXWELL

MILTON HOUSE, 4, SHOE LANE, E.C.

GEORGE VICKERS, ANGEL COURT, STRAND

AND ALL BOOKSELLERS

(From the Collected Works 1863-1885)

NOTICE.

Gustave Aimard was the adopted son of one of the most powerful Indian tribes, with whom he lived for more than fifteen years in the heart of the Prairies, sharing their dangers and their combats, and accompanying them everywhere, rifle in one hand and tomahawk in the other. In turn squatter, hunter, trapper, warrior, and miner, Gustave Aimard has traversed America from the highest peaks of the Cordilleras to the ocean shores, living from hand to mouth, happy for the day, careless of the morrow. Hence it is that Gustave Aimard only describes his own life. The Indians of whom he speaks he has known—the manners he depicts are his own.

CONTENTS

THE FLYING HORSEMAN

ZENO CABRAL

CHAPTER I.

THE STORM.

We left the Marchioness de Castelmelhor and her daughter Eva prisoners of the Pincheyra.