The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert
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Gustave Aimard. The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert
CHAPTER I. THE CACHE
CHAPTER II. THE AMBUSCADE
CHAPTER III. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF THE READER
CHAPTER IV. RED CEDAR AT BAY
CHAPTER V. THE GROTTO
CHAPTER VI. THE PROPOSITION
CHAPTER VII. ELLEN AND DOÑA CLARA
CHAPTER VIII. THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER IX. THE TEOCALI
CHAPTER X. THE WHITE GAZELLE
CHAPTER XI. THE APACHES
CHAPTER XII. BLACK CAT
CHAPTER XIII. THE GREAT MEDICINE
CHAPTER XIV. THE SUCCOUR
CHAPTER XV. ON THE ISLAND
CHAPTER XVI. SUNBEAM
CHAPTER XVII. INDIAN HOSPITALITY
CHAPTER XVIII. LOVE!
CHAPTER XIX. THE DANCE OF THE OLD DOGS
CHAPTER XX. A HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT
CHAPTER XXI. THE AVENGER
CHAPTER XXII. EXPLANATORY
CHAPTER XXIII. APACHES AND COMANCHES
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SCALP-DANCE
CHAPTER XXV. THE TORTURE
CHAPTER XXVI. TWO WOMEN'S HEARTS
CHAPTER XXVII. SHAW
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XXIX. THE AMBUSCADE
CHAPTER XXX. THE PIRATE'S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXXI. THE RIVALS
CHAPTER XXXII. FRAY AMBROSIO
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE HUNT
CHAPTER XXXV. THE COMBAT
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE EARTHQUAKE
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Two months have elapsed since we left the Trail-Hunter commencing his adventurous journey, and we are in the heart of the desert. Before us immensity is unfolded. What pen, however eloquent, would venture to describe those illimitable oceans of verdure to which the North Americans have in their imagery, given the poetic and mysterious name of the Far West? That is to say, the truly unknown region, with its scenes at once grand and striking, soft and terrible; unbounded prairies in which may be found that rich and luxuriant Flora, against whose magic growth only the Indian can successfully struggle.
These plains, at the first glance, offer the dazzled eye of the rash traveller who ventures on them a vast carpet of verdure embossed with flowers, furrowed by large streams; and they appear of a desperate regularity, mingling in the horizon with the azure of the sky.
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It is effected in the following way.
They begin by spreading blankets and buffalo skins round the spot where they intend making the cache: then they remove large sods of grass, square, round, or oval, and dig out the soil, being careful to lay it on the blankets or skins. When the hole is deep enough, the sides are lined with buffalo hides, for fear of damp, and the articles are laid in it: the soil is then put in again, and the grass laid over it, which is watered to make it grow, and the rest of the earth is carried to the river, into which every particle is thrown, in order to hide any trace of the cache, which is so closely concealed, that a man must have an extraordinary skilful eye to discover one, and he often only finds old caches which have been ransacked and have nothing left in them.
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