guardaos

Updated: May 11, 2025

I had begun to fancy as much, and to suspect that the flying Mexicans had kept along the river, when a sound like the humming of bees came up the pass. Presently it grew louder, until I could distinguish the voices of men. Our hearts as yet beat louder than their voices. Now the stones rattled, as, loosened from their sloping beds, they rolled back and downwards. "Guardaos, hombre!"

Mayne Reid - The Rifle Rangers

A voice, louder than the rest, was heard exclaiming: "Carajo! guardaos! esta el rifle del diablo!" It was doubtless the comrade of Jose, who had been in the skirmish of La Virgen, and had felt the bullet of the zundnadel. The guerilleros, awed by the death of their leader for it was Yanez who had fallen crouched behind the rocks.

Mayne Reid - The Rifle Rangers