The Rover of the Andes by Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Title: The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
Author: R.M. Ballantyne
Release Date: June 6, 2007 [EBook #21699]
Language: English
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The Rover of the Andes
a Tale of Adventure in South America
CHAPTER ONE.
A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN SOUTH AMERICA.
AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN RANGE.
Towards the close of a bright and warm day, between fifty and sixty years ago, a solitary man might have been seen, mounted on a mule, wending his way slowly up the western slopes of the Andes.
Although decidedly inelegant and unhandsome, this specimen of the human family was by no means uninteresting. He was so large, and his legs were so long, that the contrast between him and the little mule which he bestrode was ridiculous. He was what is sometimes styled "loosely put together;" nevertheless, the various parts of him were so massive and muscular that, however loosely he might have been built up, most men would have found it rather difficult to take him down. Although wanting in grace, he was by