Category: Adventure
Since the discovery of the goldfields in California and on the Fraser River, North America has entered into a phase of such active transformation, civilisation has advanced with such giant strides, that only one region is still extant--a region of which very little is known--w...
The Pampas are the _Steppes_ of South America, with this difference, that these immense plains, which extend from Buenos Aires, as far as San Luis de Mendoza, to the foot of the...
15. CHAPTER XV.According to Herrera, this river to which Solis had first given his own name, took the one it now bears from the fact that the first silver brought from America was shipped at t...
1. CHAPTER I.Since the discovery of the goldfields in California and on the Fraser River, North America has entered into a phase of such active transformation, civilisation has advanced with...
2. CHAPTER II.American forests have little resemblance to those of the Old World: in the former, the trees shoot up hap-hazard, crossing and interlacing each other, and sometimes leaving larg...
4. CHAPTER IV.These _haciendas_, scattered over Mexico at great distances from each other, and surrounded by vast stretches of country, for the greater part uninhabited, are generally situate...
8. CHAPTER VIII.After the Spanish rule had been firmly established in the New World, the government, to hold the Indians, in cheek, constructed fortified posts, at certain distances, on the ext...
9. CHAPTER IX.Stoneheart was not mistaken in declaring that the dust, rising far away in the desert, was caused by the servants of the _hacienda_; in fact, the hunter had scarcely left the pe...
3. CHAPTER III.Much as the unknown had hesitated in offering shelter to Don Pedro de Luna and his daughter,--and we know in what terms the offer had been finally made,--he showed himself equal...
6. CHAPTER VI.Stoneheart rode at their head, and Don Pedro discovered, with feelings of lively satisfaction, that the horses and mules so audaciously stolen from him were in the rear of the t...
5. CHAPTER V.After conducting his guests to the compartment of the _teocali_ which he had appointed for them, the Tigercat retraced his steps, and turned in the direction of a sufficiently a...
19. CHAPTER XIX."You did; but, carried away by the dreadful incidents of your narrative, I lost sight of the personages. My whole mind was so excited, that I fancied myself a spectator of the s...
17. CHAPTER XVII.At first everything went off well. After the first moment of distrust and fear, the muleteers and wagoners, involuntarily submitting to the influence of their favourite pastime,...
12. CHAPTER XII.Each _calli_ was built of about a dozen stakes driven into the ground, four or five feet high at the sides, and six or seven in the centre, with an aperture towards the east, fo...
7. CHAPTER VII.Nature has rights she always enforces: whatever the anxiety of the Mexicans, the fatigues they had endured during the whole of that long day made them feel the imperious necessi...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.There is one remark which has been often made. It is this: That, generally speaking, men who delight to dabble in gore--who unhesitatingly commit the most atrocious cruelties, a...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Thanks to the precaution he had taken of wrapping pieces of sheepskin round the hoofs of the horse, he passed on silently and rapidly as the spectre-horseman of the German balla...
11. CHAPTER XI.The road the two men had to travel together was tolerably long. Don Estevan would not have been sorry to shorten it by talking to Don Fernando, particularly as the manner in whi...
10. CHAPTER X.Casting, as a last hope, one more look around him, he dropped the reins, but seized them again an instant later with a suddenness which made his horse perform a curvette and win...
14. CHAPTER XIV.For some little time the two men stood thus face to face, looking at each other with the dogged resolution of two duellists who are watching an opportunity to close.