Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-11-26

We ~, Ihc Tic Wluu Ou u spree.
In this manner we travelled all that
night and the next morning, halting
only to change the mules every four
hours or SO, lying up from noon till G
o'clock in the evening, when away
again, alternately sleeping, eating,,
! drinking and smoking, all the time on!
! wheels. and at daylight the second
morning we finally stopped for good,
| with general assortment of wheels in
, our heads" II there was spot on my
| body not sore or bruised black and
blue I do not remember having found
! It. and my legs were so stiff from dis
use that at first getting on them I
could hardly stand.
The town has one long street lined
With one story dwellings of stone, and
MS everybody seemed to be asleep our
mUleteer began at one end of the
street and pounded on every door, then
! repeated the performance back again
until finally somebody poked his head
out of hole in the wall and told us
to go to el diablo An old woman
showed herself at last and then
younger one, and both set to work most
industriously grinding corn between
two stones and cooking tortillas for us
over an open fire.
thought this night be the end of
the journey. but tee consul said no,
there yet remained half days jaunt
on horseback. but all the way through
turkey country, so the time would
r,1icl-1v nd nj nf1v fhon
! if we were in the yolan. At last the
old woman brought us stack of tor
tillas foot high and spread them out
on board for US to eat, while the
younger female, comely mestiza.
played on the guitar and sang to the
popular tune of the '"Toro." This was
our Thanksgiving breakfast, tortillas
and frijoies. the latter being beans
fried in fat and the former just plain
everyday flapjacks. We had no knives
save our hunting knives and no forks
or spoons, but we rolled up the thin
tortillas into scoops, with which we
ladlcd in the beans. with another tor.
tilla as plate. and after the beans
were gone devoured both plate and
spoon as we'll. So. there being no dish
eS to wash. the two women Saddleu
our horses for us when the repast was
over. saw to it that the girths We're
tight and the riatas coiled on the POM
mols and then gave US "auios' with
much g"ace.
Four May: Indians trampcd til" tralt
ahead of US and led the way through
the logwooI forests. where we wound
between the crooked trees and among
! immense ant bills big as houses. Each
! Indian WAS naked to the waist. WEAR
ing nothing but a pair ot rantaioonS
cut short II the knee. and in r.l2 hollow
of his :t ann carrying wicked look
ing m:;r!lct" When well into the for
! est they spread out IKE 4 great fam
ranging for turkeys. ana not an hour
passed before the consul and myself
each had I; shot. and each brought
down Il plump %oobler wish plu:nag"
CT golden bronze shining TX" tll2 sun.
When 1t last we reached tiic nalm
thatched hut on the cC3St Where we
We're to pass the night each OF us had
! three tine turkeys at his SadaleboW,
ard The consul carried belint, him Il
von,do mr. n,tive deer which he hnd
shot ON the iumn as II plunged be-
ncoth the locwoods. The camp was
reached late in the afternoon. but our
four Indians went to work with such
energy that by sunset they had our
,,b,n snraaa with the v;anaS smoking
hot If was set near the beach beneath
,ho Golden roof,recs OF the cocoa palms.
where 4 cool breeze tempered the heat
of This rropjc region ana har.slrd tie
,nosou;tooS
THANKSGIVING dinner comprised the
Golden trrkcvs. two of them adorniMS
crr tol,e 1Leir ,,,Is neatly tucked