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From the small island, separated from it by a channel scarcely three arrow-shots wide, it seemed as though sleep or paralysis had fallen upon the citizens of the busy little industrial town, for few people appeared in the streets, and the scanty number of porters and sailors who were working among the ships and boats in the little fleet performed their tasks noiselessly, exhausted by the heat and labour of the day.
No approach was possible without exposing the assailant to arrow-shots, whereas the defenders were thoroughly protected. As their numbers increased by accessions from those who had also been able to extricate themselves, their courage returned, and they willingly remained until the time came when the shaman, and Tyope by his command, should direct farther retreat.
Marx alone walked quietly and undisturbed beside his little horse's thick head; he was familiar with all the voices of the forest. It grew colder towards morning. Ruth woke and cried, and her father, panting for breath, asked: "When shall we rest?" "Behind the height; ten arrow-shots farther," replied the charcoal-burner. "Courage," whispered the smith. "Get on the sledge, doctor; we'll push."
Marx alone walked quietly and undisturbed beside his little horse's thick head; he was familiar with all the voices of the forest. It grew colder towards morning. Ruth woke and cried, and her father, panting for breath, asked: "When shall we rest?" "Behind the height; ten arrow-shots farther," replied the charcoal- burner. "Courage," whispered the smith. "Get on the sledge, doctor; we'll push."
Marx alone walked quietly and undisturbed beside his little horse's thick head; he was familiar with all the voices of the forest. It grew colder towards morning. Ruth woke and cried, and her father, panting for breath, asked: "When shall we rest?" "Behind the height; ten arrow-shots farther," replied the charcoal-burner. "Courage," whispered the smith. "Get on the sledge, doctor; we'll push."
The remainder escaped with the wounded. Fifteen or sixteen were wounded on our side with arrow-shots; but they were soon healed. After gaining the victory, our men amused themselves by taking a great quantity of Indian corn and some meal from their enemies, also their armor, which they had left behind that they might run better.
And, right in the middle of the causeway to Margny, two arrow-shots from our bridge end, he is letting build a great bastille, and digging a trench wherein men may go to and fro. The cordelier was as glad of that as a man who has stalked a covey of partridges.
The besiegers remained non-combatant in their camp, watching Saguntum from afar. The slingers came out in the mornings to exercise their arms by shooting against the wall, but aside from this, and from the arrow-shots with which they replied from the city, there was no further exchange of hostilities between the besiegers and the besieged.
Mendana and his wife Dona Ysabel seem to have wished to be on good terms with the natives, and taught them to sign the cross, and say amigos, and they proceeded to found their intended city, but neither Mendana nor Malope could restrain their followers; there were musket-shots on one side and arrow-shots on the other, and at last, the chief Malope himself fell into the hands of some Spanish soldiers, who murdered him.
And I say with much boldness, because they were no more than four men and two women, and ours more than twenty-five, of whom they wounded two. To one they gave two arrow-shots in the breast, and to the other one in the ribs.
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