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"Halt! stop" shouted we to the guides. "Stop! and let us seek shelter from the storm." "On! for God's sake, on! or we are lost," was the reply. Thank Heaven! the path is getting wider we come to a descent they are leading us out of the forest. If the storm had come on while we were among the trees, we might be crushed to death by the falling branches. We are close to a barranca. "Alerto!
I was well guarded to be sure, but could have dispensed with the attention, and would have bargained for less honor, with an equal diminution of noise! The Portuguese lay great stress upon these night calls; and at the Typa fort, where we lay, which but two or three soldiers garrison, it was said they had a ventriloquist, who sent the word Alerto, with various changes, throughout the works.
Alerto!" shrieked the Mexicans. "Madre de Dios! Dios! Dios!" And well might they call to God for help in that awful moment. The gigantic night-moth gaped and shot forth tongues of fire a ghastly white flame, that contrasted strangely and horribly with the dense black cloud from which it issued.
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