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But shortly after sunrise, and just as they advance guard reached the summit, they discovered your party ascending, and, mistaking your uniformed soldiers for guardias, the leader lined a dozen of his men along the ridge, and opened on you, while his mayordomo rushed the pack mules of the conducta back down the trail they had come.
We heard of it; in fact, it was the talk of the town, and no one expected you would ever get back. And by the way, it was a contraband conducta owned by friends of ours who attacked you back of the town! Droll, is it not?" "Perhaps now," I doubtfully answered. "Yes," Mrs. Munzenberger continued, "they were on their way to Monclova. "But why did they attack us?" I queried.
As a consequence of this political movement, Santa Anna was appointed second in command in Vera Cruz. Incidents of Travel. The Great Road to the Interior. Mexican Diligences. The Priest was the first Passenger robbed. The National Bridge. A Conducta of Silver. Our Monk visits Old Vera Cruz. They grant to the Indians Forty Years of Indulgence in return for their Hospitality.
Later I learned that early that morning the guards had caught the conducta with only two men in charge, who had shrewdly skipped and scattered to gather the party that arrived just in time to save their plunder.
Early in the fight they discovered you wore a party of gringos, and not guards, and decamped as soon as their conducta had time to reach a point where they could leave the rail. "Had their goods not been at stake, they would have wiped you out, if they could, for the leader's brother got shot in the head of which he died the same day.
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