"He and those whom he conducts," answered the chief. "I have need of my brother."
"I am at the orders of Tarou Niom."
"Epoï, I speak. For the success of my projects we must have the assistance of the Payagoas, without their war canoes I can attempt nothing. Emavidi Chaime has promised to send me fifty, each manned by ten warriors, as soon as I express my wish for them. My brother, the Grand Sarigue, will go and ask for these canoes?"
"I will go."
"I have myself brought here my brother's horse, in order that he may lose no time. Here is my keaio,[1] my brother will show it to Emavidi Chaime, the chief of the Payagoas, on the part of his friend Tarou Niom, and will say to him—"
"'Tarou Niom demands the accomplishment of the promise made.'"
"I will say it," said Diogo.
"Good, my brother is a great warrior; I love him, let him follow me."
The two men then began to march rapidly without speaking, one behind the other.
Don Diogo inwardly congratulated himself on the fate which had been pleased to arrange matters so well, for he feared the piercing eye of the Guaycurus chief, and it was with a secret apprehension that he thought of the moment when they should both arrive at the camp, where the light of the watch fires would reveal his disguise to the eyes of the Guaycurus—so difficult to deceive, and who, moreover, knew the man he personated too well to allow him to impose upon them.