The Wanderers: Or Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Up the Orinoco
- ISBN-10
- 1492251674
- ISBN-13
- 9781492251675
- Series
- The Wanderers
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-08-26
- Author
- W. H. G. Kingston
Description
Daylight had just broken, when, glancing over the ocean, I caught sight of a couple of vessels, which appeared to be standing in for the coast. I could not help crying out to Uncle Paul, in case he might not have observed them. My voice, unfortunately, startled Arthur's horse, which began to sidle and prance; when what was my horror to see its hinder feet slipping over the precipice! Marian shrieked out with alarm, and I expected the next moment that Arthur would be dashed to pieces on the rocks below. Such would have been his fate, had he not sprung from his saddle just as the animal went over the precipice. In vain the creature instinctively attempted to spring up again, desperately clinging to the rock with its feet. Arthur tried to seize its bridle to help it; but in another instant we saw it fall on the rocks below with a force which must have broken every bone in its body.
