Along the Rio Grande Page: 29
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Miners and Bandits. 29
shaped adobe houses inhabited by Mexicans. From time
to time the dark-colored people would pass us in carts, to
which were hitched animals of any description; sometimes
a couple of burros, a mule and a horse, while once we saw
a mule and an ox side by side, dragging the vehicle along
at a gait that signified that manana would do as well as
any other time for the date of their arrival.
Off to the right, rising abruptly from the green of
the plains, rose a blue range of mountains over in Mexico.
Soon the few clouds in the east, which had been drifting
lazily about in a brilliant sky, began to thicken and became
a mass of lead in the distance.
Shortly it changed to a golden glow. Far from
us the wind had sprung up, carrying tons of sand in its
grasp. A little in front we could see two twisting columns
of white, miniature cyclones preceding as advance guards.
These broke up and gave place to others.
Then came with them the wind which screeched by
at sixty miles an hour. It tore the hat from a worried peon
near by us and took it sailing like a small balloon high
up into the air. The sand, which feels more like gravel
when it beats against your face, blinded us and it was almost
impossible to see more than a few feet ahead.
With the unquenchable ardor of a Texan when honor
of his native State is concerned, my companion shouted
to me from behind his handkerchief:
"Say, this isn't anything compared to some of the
storms we have here. I've seen it so you could hardly
breathe and it took the skin right off your face."
I was too busy to mention to him that it was with
great difficulty that I did breathe, and that the skin was
being taken off my face. We tied handkerchiefs over our
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