From time to time it seemed to open, and sheets of fire would fill the gap.

To this threatening sky the death-wail ascended tremulously and plaintively, like a timid appeal for redress.

In response the heavens shot angry lightning and thunderpeals.
The cliffs on the Tyuonyi trembled, and re-echoed the voices from above, which seemed to tell feeble humanity below, "We come!" * * * * * It was long before sunset when the old war-chief of the Queres, after having thoroughly examined the spot where the interview between Shotaye and the Tehua Indian took place, began to follow on the tracks of the latter.

He was undertaking a difficult, an extremely dangerous task.

It is not easy for a man well provided with weapons to pursue an armed Indian, but to attempt it unarmed is foolhardiness.