Gustave Aimard. The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. FRAY ANTONIO
CHAPTER II. INDIAN DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER III. DOWN THE PRECIPICE
CHAPTER IV. TWO ENEMIES
CHAPTER V. GENERAL RUBIO
CHAPTER VI. THE HUNTER'S COUNCIL
CHAPTER VII. AN OLD FRIEND
CHAPTER VIII. QUONIAM'S RETURN
CHAPTER IX. HOSPITALITY
CHAPTER X. THE LARCH-TREE HACIENDA
CHAPTER XI. A METAMORPHOSIS
CHAPTER XII. THE SUMMONS
CHAPTER XIII. THE SIEGE
CHAPTER XIV. THE PROPOSAL
CHAPTER XV. A THUNDERBOLT
CHAPTER XVI. THE CONSPIRATORS
CHAPTER XVII. THE SPY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PULQUERIA
CHAPTER XIX. AT SEA
CHAPTER XX. THE PRIZE
CHAPTER XXI. A STRANGE LEGEND
CHAPTER XXII. THE SURPRISE
CHAPTER XXIII. EL SALTO DEL FRAYLE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE LANDING
CHAPTER XXV. FORWARD!
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All the wood rangers have noticed, with reference to the immense virgin forests which still cover a considerable extent of the soil of the New World, that, to the man who attempts to penetrate into one of these mysterious retreats which the hand of man has not yet deformed, and which preserve intact the sublime stamp which Deity has imprinted on them, the first steps offer almost insurmountable difficulties, which are gradually smoothed down more and more, and after a little while almost entirely disappear. It is as if Nature had desired to defend by a belt of thorns and spikes the mysterious shades of these aged forests, in which her most secret arcana are carried out.
Many times, during our wanderings in America, we were in a position to appreciate the correctness of the remark we have just made: this singular arrangement of the forests, surrounded, as it were, by a rampart of parasitic plants entangled one in the other, and thrusting in every direction their shoots full of incredible sap, seemed a problem which offered a certain degree of interest from various points of view, and especially from that of science.
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"But among all the hunters I am acquainted with, there is only one who is a Canadian."
