"Yes, my friend; I think you will do well also to send scouts in advance in order to avoid a surprise."
"Agreed," answered the young chief, withdrawing.
One hour later the Guaycurus warriors were on the march, in the direction of the Cordilleras, of which the mountain, at the foot of which they had camped during the night, was but one of the advanced and lesser chain.
[1] Double canvas pockets, which are carried behind the saddle.
[CHAPTER IV.]
THE TWO CHIEFS.
By degrees, as the Guaycurus warriors advanced towards the mountains, the landscape assumed a more severe and a more picturesque aspect.
The road, or rather the path followed by the troops mounted by an almost imperceptible slope, by risings of earth which serve, so to speak, as gigantic steps to the first chain of the Cordilleras.