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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e Mission, advising them moreover, not to recommencehostilities, as himself was kept as hostage, and if a finger waslifted against the mountaineers, he would be killed at once, andthe Mission burned to the ground. Once inside, the hunters hadno fear of attack, they eould have kept the building against allCalifornia; so, leaving a guard of two outside the gate, and takingup one of the party who had been severely wounded, they entered,made themselves at home, and soon were paying attention to thehot tortillas, meat, and chile Colorado, which were quickly placedbefore them, washing down the hot-spiced viands with deepdraughts of wine and brandy. It would have been amusing tohave seen the faces of these rough fellows as they gravely pledgedeach other in the grateful liquor, and looked askance at the pilesof fruit served by the attendant Hebes. These came in for nolittle share of attention, it may be imagined ; but the utmost re-spect was paid to them, for your mountaineer, rough and bear-
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A MOUNTAITSTEER. THE MOUNTAINEERS AND THE CALIFORNIANS. 47 like though he be, never by word or deed, offends the modesty ofu woman, although sometimes obliged to use a compulsory wooing,v/hen time is not allowed for regular courtship, and not unfre-cjuently known to jerk a New Mexican or Culifornian beauty be-hind his saddle, should the obdurate parents refuse consent totheir immediate union. It tickled the Americans not a little tohave all their wants supplied, and to be thus waited upon, bywhat they considered the houris of paradise; and after their longjourney, and the many hardships and privations they had suffered,their present luxurious situation seemed scarcely real. The hidalgo, released from the durance vile of the lasso, assistedat the entertainment; his sense of what was due to the sangreregular which ran in his veins being appeased by the fact, thathe sat above the wild, uncouth mountaineers, these preferring tosquat crosslegged on the floor in their own fashion, to the un

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