Crossword-Solution: ARRIERO 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The proprietor of the hotel found us an arriero, whom he declared to be the most competent and trustworthy guide in all the Andes--a long, loose-jointed fellow with an air of complete indifference habitually resting on his yellow, rather sinister-looking face.

Then, messieurs--allons!" The arriero, receiving my nod uttered a peculiar whistle through his teeth.

Hardly ever did we find ground sufficiently broad for a breathing space, save when our arriero led us, almost by magic it seemed, to a camping place for the night.

Our arriero, halting us at that early hour, had explained that there was no other camping ground within six hours' march, and no hacienda or pueblo within fifty miles.

For several days we had been in the region of perpetual snow; and soon we gathered about the fire which the arriero had kindled for our camp.