"...a fire of buffalo chips..." (p. 279) I had not known what this meant until I googled it! The fire is also made of mesquite.
"Every Comanchero was necessarily a crack shot." (ibid.)
- so named because they traded with the Comanches. I had not known that.
We realize that Rufus Bullen is our Rufus because he:
has red hair and a hook instead of a right hand;
his missing teeth are growing back;
he speaks Latin, "'Inutilis est,'" (p. 278) to Tarrant, who must therefore be Hanno.
Their Comanchero guide recognizes a few words from the Catholic Mass but also realizes that this is a different version of the language. These are a few details gleaned from two facing pages before starting the day. Hopefully, there will be more later.
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Kaor, Paul!
The bit about Rufus speaking Lating with Hanno/Tarrant interested. Plainly, of course, Rufus was almost the very last man alive who had grown up speaking Latin as his natal tongue. So, it was interesting to see him speaking Latin with Hanno in private.
Sean
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