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Updated: June 28, 2025
A wild cry, expressive of extreme astonishment, broke from the guerilleros. At the same instant a cheer rang through the corral. "Well done!" cried a dozen of voices at once. In a moment the rifle was wiped and reloaded. "This time, Sergeant, the fellow with the linstock."
There was something ludicrous in my comrade's remark about "feeling" the sunset. The barking of the dogs now ceased, and we could hear voices ahead welcoming the guerilleros. The hoofs of our mules struck upon a hard pavement, and the sounds echoed as if under an arched way.
But it is to be seen clearly that communication with the shore and even the sending of messengers inland was part of her service, either to obtain intelligence from or to transmit orders or advice to patriotic Spaniards, guerilleros or secret juntas of the province. Something of the sort. All this can be only inferred from the preserved scraps of his conscientious writing.
It was the Spanish language, spoken in the patois of the Aztec Indians. In this the guerilleros chatted, and sang, and swore. By a blazing pile, close to where we sat, a party of guerilleros, with their women, were dancing the tagarota, a species of fandango.
In an instant every eye was turned, and we beheld with consternation a cloud of horsemen springing out from the woods, and dashing along in the headlong velocity of a charge. It required but a single glance to satisfy me that they were guerilleros. Their picturesque attire, their peculiar arms, and the parti-coloured bannerets upon their lances were not to be mistaken.
They stirred chile and chocolate in earthen ollas. They cooked frijoles in flat pans; and amidst all these occupations they joked and laughed and chatted with the men. Several men officers, from their style of dress came out of the portale, and, after delivering orders to the guerilleros on guard, returned to the house. Packages of what appeared to be merchandise lay in one corner of the court.
Even so, the proximity of the enemy's ports made escape so easy, that the work of repression was very ineffective. The state of the case was indeed almost identical with a people's war. The ordinary devices of strategy failed to deal with it, as completely as Napoleon's broadly planned methods failed to deal with the guerilleros in Spain, or as our own failed for so long in South Africa.
There existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrede.
"The plague!" exclaimed Clayley; "do they expect us to lick this up without either hands, spoons, or knives?" "Won't you allow us the use of our fingers?" asked Raoul, speaking to one of the guerilleros. "No," replied the man gruffly. "How do you expect us to eat, then?" "With your mouths, as brutes should. What else?" "Thank you, sir; you are very polite."
Two of the guerilleros were rushing upon him with couched lances. I galloped out to his rescue; but before I could reach him the lance of the foremost Mexican crashed through the soldier's skull, shivering it like a shell. The barb and bloody pennon came out on the opposite side. The man was lifted from the ground, and carried several paces upon the shaft of the lance.
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