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As Guapo had neither bow nor gun, nothing in fact but his macheté, how was he to get near enough to use this weapon? Clumsy-looking as the tapir certainly is, he can shuffle over the ground faster than the fastest Indian. Guapo knew all this, but he also knew a stratagem by which the amphibious brute could be outwitted, and this stratagem he designed putting in practice.
"There are plenty of fellows here," he remarked, "who would cut my throat for a silver dollar, let alone a gold piece." He sheathed his machete peaceably, and went out by the back door, determining to let as few people as possible suspect that the Tassara mansion contained a boarder, or it was more nearly correct to say lodger.
"Diablos!" exclaimed the astonished Mexican, as he struck back a heavy blow with the cudgel which remained in his hand. Ned parried as well as he could with his machete, but there was some force left in the stick when it reached his head, and down he went. He had made a discovery at that very moment, however.
And at that, as though the blow were a signal, every peon flings from him his burden, and the whole of them hurl themselves upon the white man and bear him to the ground, the one who was struck raising his machete as though to split the skull of his enemy."
It is only those who leave their homes and take part in battle who are injured. It is only the rebels who destroy peaceful homes. "'It is reported, I said, 'that thirty women are fighting under Maceo. Is this true? "'Yes, replied the General. 'We took one woman yesterday. She was dressed in man's clothes and was wielding a machete. She is now in Morro Castle. These women are fiercer than men.
Asensio slashed once at him with his long, murderous machete, but the next instant he was engaged with a trooper who had fired almost into his face. The other negroes also were in the open by this time, yelling and firing as fast as they could work the bolts of their rifles, and although they aimed at nothing in particular, the effect of their fusillade was all that could be wished.
Seizing my machete, I cut two stakes of a good thickness, which I drove into the ground close to one another, about three yards from the precipice. While Sumichrast with a club was consolidating my work, I cut a stick about a foot long, to the middle of which I firmly tied the lasso. I then placed it crosswise behind the stakes.
So I gave the child into Sumichrast's charge, for if he had been left to climb by himself, he would most likely have rolled over and hurt himself against the stumps or sharp rocks. I made my way into a copse, and with my machete I cut down a moderately-sized branch, the end of which I sharpened to a point.
There is no kind of stonework which can compare, under certain circumstances, with the point of a lance or the edge of a machete, and the bearers of a number of such weapons were to be seen coming toward him at a gallop. "It looks like a whole company of lancers!" exclaimed the anxious despatch-carrier. "Now I'm in for it!
A saber or a 'machete, as they call it, is the only agricultural implement they use. The construction of their houses does not occupy them more than a day or two."
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