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Title: The Guide of the Desert
Author: Gustave Aimard
Editor: Percy B. St. John
Release Date: April 15, 2014 [eBook #45401]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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GUIDE OF THE DESERT
By
GUSTAVE AIMARD
TRANSLATED BY LASCELLES WRAXALL
EDITED BY PERCY B. ST. JOHN
LONDON
JOHN and ROBERT MAXWELL
MILTON HOUSE, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET
AND
35, ST. BRIDE STREET, LUDGATE CIRCUS.
(From the Collected Works 1863-1885)
CONTENTS
| I. | A PRISONER. | |
| II. | THE GAUCHO. | |
| III. | THE RANCHO. | |
| IV. | THE FAZENDA DO RIO D'OURO. | |
| V. | O SERTÃO. | |
| VI. | TAROU NIOM. | |
| VII. | THE MARQUIS DE CASTELMELHOR. | |
| VIII. | A NOBLE BANDIT. | |
| IX. | THROUGH THE DESERT. | |
| X. | THE GUAYCURUS. | |
| XI. | A STRATEGIC ASSAULT. | |
| XII. | THE PAYAGOA VILLAGE. | |
| XIII. | THE CHASE. | |
| XIV. | DISASTER. | |
| XV. | EL VADO DEL CABESTRO. | |
| XVI. | FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. | |
| XVII. | THE PEONS. | |
| XVIII. | SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMÁN. | |
| XIX. | LA MONTONERA. | |
| XX. | THE SOIRÉE. |
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.
CHAPTER I.
A PRISONER.
Loading in the environs of Barbara Bay, Cape Horn, I was surprised, with two companions, by the Patagonians, and made prisoner. I had the pain of witnessing from the cliffs the departure of the whaler on board of which I had entered at Havre as harpooner.
It was with a deep