6/41 Not so far there! "It must be," said Luis, "that Cuba is narrow, though without end westwardly. A great point or tongue of Asia ?" The Cubans were strong young men and not unintelligent. "Chiefs ?" Yes, they had chiefs, they called them _caciques_. Some of them were fighters, they and their people. Not fighters like Caribs! Whereupon the speaker rose--we were resting under a tree--and facing south, used for gesture a strong shudder and a movement as if to flee. |