A tour through the Pyrenees . such orreat rains, that it seemed that God had for-gotten the promise given to Noah never again todestroy the world by water ; for all the cabins anddwellings of the said Caulderets were so filled withwater that it became impossible to live in them. The French lords and ladies, thinking to returnto Tarbes as easily as they had come, found thelittle brooks so swollen that they could scarcelyford them. Rut when they came to pass theBearnese Oave, which was not two feet deep whenthey first saw it, they found it so large and im- 11 Hr m llll:llliill:IIHi|aillli<!ii
A tour through the Pyrenees . such orreat rains, that it seemed that God had for-gotten the promise given to Noah never again todestroy the world by water ; for all the cabins anddwellings of the said Caulderets were so filled withwater that it became impossible to live in them. The French lords and ladies, thinking to returnto Tarbes as easily as they had come, found thelittle brooks so swollen that they could scarcelyford them. Rut when they came to pass theBearnese Oave, which was not two feet deep whenthey first saw it, they found it so large and im- 11 Hr m llll:llliill:IIHi|aillli<!iiiili: Iti ??I i P^^^^. Chap. IV. CAUTERETS. 305 petuous, that they made a circuit to look for thebridges, which, being nothing but wood, wereswept away by the vehemence of the water. Andsome, thinkine to break the violence of the courseby assembling several together, were so promptlyswept away, that those who would follow them lostthe power and the desire of going after. Where-upon they separated, each one seeking a way forhimself Two poor ladies, half a league beyondPierrefitte, found a bear coming down the moun-tain, before which they galloped away in such greathaste that their horses fell dead under them at theentrance of their dwelling ; two of their women, whocame a long time after, told them that the bear hadkilled all their serving men. So while they are all at mass, there comesinto the church a man with nothing on but hisshirt, fleeing as if some one were chasing and fol-lowing him up. It was one of their companions bythe name of Guebron, who recounted to them how,as he was in a hut near Pierrefitte
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