The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California
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Gustave Aimard. The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California
CHAPTER I. THE PIECES AND THE BOARD
CHAPTER II. ENVY NO MAN HIS GRAVE
CHAPTER III. THE PIRATE'S BEQUEST
CHAPTER IV. A DESERT MYSTERY
CHAPTER V. THE GODSEND
CHAPTER VI. ANY PORT IN A STORM
CHAPTER VII. A WAKING NIGHTMARE
CHAPTER VIII. THE "LITTLE JOKER."
CHAPTER IX. THE WAY LAYERS
CHAPTER X. THE PEARL DIVER'S PRICE
CHAPTER XI. THE TWO CAPTAINS OF THE "GOLETA."
CHAPTER XII. THE ROUT COMPLETE
CHAPTER XIII. INTERVENTION
CHAPTER XIV. THE HAUL OF MILLIONS
CHAPTER XV. THE PATHFINDER'S HONOUR
CHAPTER XVI. A HAVEN WORSE THAN THE STORM
CHAPTER XVII. THE PUREST OF PEARLS
CHAPTER XVIII. OUT AND AWAY
CHAPTER XIX. THE OLD, OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER XX. THE ANGELITO
CHAPTER XXI. THE LANCERS' CHARGE
CHAPTER XXII. THE PACT OF BLOOD
CHAPTER XXIII. CANNON IS BROUGHT TO BEAR
CHAPTER XXIV. THE UNWILLING VOLUNTEER
CHAPTER XXV. THE LOYALTY OF THE APACHE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE HARVEST OF THE KNIFE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE TRUE CABALLERO
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE BEST BAIT TO CATCH APACHES
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Don Benito Vázquez de Bustamente was the son of that General Bustamente, twice president of the Mexican Republic. When his father, cast down from power, was forced to flee with his family to take final refuge at Guayaquil, the boy was only five or six years old. Suffering with fever, which made the voyage dangerous for him, the child was left at Guaymas in charge of a faithful adherent, who found no better way of saving the son of the proscript from persecution than to take him as one of his own little family up the San José Valley, where he had a ranch. The boy remained there and grew up to the age when we encountered him.
His rough but trusty guardian let the youth run wild, teaching him to ride and shoot as the only needful accomplishments. Benito, falling into the company of the remnant of purer-blooded Indians, supposed to be the last of the original possessors of that region, relished their vagabond life exceedingly. Not only did he spend weeks at a time in hunts with them, with an occasional running fight with the Yaqui tribe, and even the Apaches raiding Sonora; but, at the season for pearl diving, accompanied them in their boats, not only in the Gulf, but down the mainland and up the seacoast of the peninsula. La Paz he knew well, and the Isles of Pearls were familiar in every cranny.
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The red man chose to interpret this movement as a flattery for his warlike appearance, for he smiled contentedly, and, drawing his long knife, cried holding up three fingers of his left hand:
"La Garra de Rapina – the Claw of Rapine – will now take his harvest for thrice five days' toil."
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