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Martinez
,
General
.
Small
glory
,
to
be
sure
,
in
this
,
his
country
's
first
call
.
But
it
had
called
,
and
joy
surged
in
the
admiral
's
breast
.
He
drew
his
cutlass
belt
to
another
buckle
hole
,
roused
his
dozing
crew
,
and
in
a
quarter
of
an
hour
El
Nacional
was
tacking
swiftly
down
coast
in
a
stiff
landward
breeze
.
The
Rio
Ruiz
is
a
small
river
,
emptying
into
the
sea
ten
miles
below
Coralio
.
That
portion
of
the
coast
is
wild
and
solitary
.
Through
a
gorge
in
the
Cordilleras
rushes
the
Rio
Ruiz
,
cold
and
bubbling
,
to
glide
,
at
last
,
with
breadth
and
leisure
,
through
an
alluvial
morass
into
the
sea
.
In
two
hours
El
Nacional
entered
the
river
's
mouth
.
The
banks
were
crowded
with
a
disposition
of
formidable
trees
.
The
sumptuous
undergrowth
of
the
tropics
overflowed
the
land
,
and
drowned
itself
in
the
fallow
waters
.
Silently
the
sloop
entered
there
,
and
met
a
deeper
silence
.
Brilliant
with
greens
and
ochres
and
floral
scarlets
,
the
umbrageous
mouth
of
the
Rio
Ruiz
furnished
no
sound
or
movement
save
of
the
sea-going
water
as
it
purled
against
the
prow
of
the
vessel
.
Small
chance
there
seemed
of
wresting
beef
or
provisions
from
that
empty
solitude
.
The
admiral
decided
to
cast
anchor
,
and
,
at
the
chain
's
rattle
,
the
forest
was
stimulated
to
instant
and
resounding
uproar
.
The
mouth
of
the
Rio
Ruiz
had
only
been
taking
a
morning
nap
.
Parrots
and
baboons
screeched
and
barked
in
the
trees
;
a
whirring
and
a
hissing
and
a
booming
marked
the
awakening
of
animal
life
;
a
dark
blue
bulk
was
visible
for
an
instant
,
as
a
startled
tapir
fought
his
way
through
the
vines
.
The
navy
,
under
orders
,
hung
in
the
mouth
of
the
little
river
for
hours
.
The
crew
served
the
dinner
of
shark
's
fin
soup
,
plantains
,
crab
gumbo
and
sour
wine
.
The
admiral
,
with
a
three-foot
telescope
,
closely
scanned
the
impervious
foliage
fifty
yards
away
.
It
was
nearly
sunset
when
a
reverberating
"
hal-lo-o-o
!
"
came
from
the
forest
to
their
left
.
It
was
answered
;
and
three
men
,
mounted
upon
mules
,
crashed
through
the
tropic
tangle
to
within
a
dozen
yards
of
the
river
's
bank
.
There
they
dismounted
;
and
one
,
unbuckling
his
belt
,
struck
each
mule
a
violent
blow
with
his
sword
scabbard
,
so
that
they
,
with
a
fling
of
heels
,
dashed
back
again
into
the
forest
.
Those
were
strange-looking
men
to
be
conveying
beef
and
provisions
.
One
was
a
large
and
exceedingly
active
man
,
of
striking
presence
.
He
was
of
the
purest
Spanish
type
,
with
curling
,
gray-besprinkled
,
dark
hair
,
blue
,
sparkling
eyes
,
and
the
pronounced
air
of
a
caballero
grande
.
The
other
two
were
small
,
brown-faced
men
,
wearing
white
military
uniforms
,
high
riding
boots
and
swords
.
The
clothes
of
all
were
drenched
,
bespattered
and
rent
by
the
thicket
.
Some
stress
of
circumstance
must
have
driven
them
,
diable
à
quatre
,
through
flood
,
mire
and
jungle
.
