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"I do not think the Gothos have got him," he answered; "for, to say the truth, I gave him information that they were coming, and, as the padre is a wise man, he would not have waited for their visit. Where he has gone I cannot tell." I was somewhat relieved by this information, though I pictured to myself the jovial padre wandering about the wilds without food or shelter.
"Though we have been inactive for some time, we shall soon have work for all of you," he remarked, laughing: "you, Barry, to take a part in the fighting; you, senor doctor, to attend the wounded; and you, senor padre, to shrive the dying. Each man to his trade, though, to confess the truth, I shall be very glad when our part of the business is over, and we have driven the Gothos into the sea.
I was thankful to find, in the course of a few minutes, twenty stout, hardy-looking fellows, chiefly Creoles and mulattoes, pretty well-armed either with guns, blunderbusses, pistols, swords, or spears. All had one or two weapons, which they knew how to use; and were thoroughly imbued with a true hatred of the Gothos, as they called the Spaniards, and all those who sided with them.
You have not been long enough in the country to have heard one-tenth part of the horrible cruelties those Gothos have inflicted on our people." "But you, Donna Isabella, are Spanish, and so are all our friends here," I said, after having expressed my horror of the atrocities which had been committed in the country. "I am a child of Venezuela," she answered proudly.
We all stood for a few seconds lost in astonishment at the unexpected scene. "In the recesses of this cavern, my friends, you may remain as long as you desire, without danger of being discovered by your enemies," observed Kanimapo. "The Gothos are unacquainted with its existence; and but few of our people, indeed, know the way to it.
Should we be betrayed, there was nothing to prevent our enemies from following us; and there was no position in which we could defend ourselves against them. Kanimapo confessed that such was the case; but he added, "There is a spot at hand to which I can lead you, where you will be secure from a whole army of Gothos.
Would that we had many more like them. But our cause will triumph; everywhere the tyrant Gothos are yielding to our arms whenever we can catch them in the open country; and as hornets are burned out of their nests, we must expel them from the cities in which they have taken refuge, and then not sheathe the sword till we have cut them to pieces or driven them before us into the ocean.
In a little he spoke again. "Take hold of this ladder. My master and I have imitated the birds, and formed a nest for ourselves up in a tree; no jaguars, snakes, or peccaries can reach us there, and the Gothos are not likely to search in such a spot."
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