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The Rifle Rangers

CHAPTER TWO
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I had steamed it down the Mississippi, and sculled it up the Orinoco.

I had hunted buffaloes with the Pawnees of the Platte, and ostriches upon the pampas of the Plata: to-day, shivering in the hut of an Esquimaux--a month after, taking my _siesta_ in an aery couch under the gossamer frondage of the corozo palm.

I had eaten raw meat with the trappers of the Rocky Mountains, and roast monkey among the Mosquito Indians; and much more, which might weary the reader, and ought to have made the writer a wiser man.

But, I fear, the spirit of adventure--its thirst--is within me slakeless.

I had just returned from a "scurry" among the Comanches of Western Texas, and the idea of "settling down" was as far from my mind as ever.
"What next?
what next ?" thought I.


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