The Freebooters A Story Of The Texan War Translated By Sir Fcl Wraxall

Author : Olivier Gloux
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458916143
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Freebooters, by Gustave Aimard [Tr. by Sir F.C.L. Wraxall]. written by Olivier Gloux and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Till we meet again, the Apache said, with a grin. Pray Antonio made no reply, but uttered a deep sigh, and pushed on in the direction of the camp. The nearer he drew to it, the more difficult did it appear to him to accomplish the sinister mission with which the Apache Chief had intrusted him; twice or thrice the idea of flight crossed his mind, but whither could he go? and then it was probable that the Indians placed but slight confidence in him, and carefully watched him. in the gloom. At length the camp appeared before the monk's startled eyes, as he could not draw back, for the hunters lad doubtless perceived him already, - he decided on pushing forward, while desperately muttering? The Lord have mercy upon me CHAPTER III. DOWS' THE PEECIPICE. The romancer has an incontestable advantage over the historian. Not being obliged to restrict himself to historical documents, he bases his work chiefly on tradition, and revels in those incidents of private life disdained by cold and severe history, which is constrained to describe only great events, and is not permitted to descend to the frequently trivial causes which not only prepared, but actually brought them about. Frequently, after a long journey, the traveller, fatigued by the vast horizons incessantly unrolled before him, and rendered giddy by the sharp air of the elevations along which he has been riding, looks down on theplain, and his eye rests with indescribable pleasure on those modest points in the landscape which at the out- sot he despised. In the same way the romancer halts at the familiar episodes of the great poem, and listens to the simple stories told him by those who were actors in the scenes merely indicated by history. Such stories complete the dry and stern narrative of great wars, bu...