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Updated: June 4, 2025
Had he caught the blow upon the flat of his sword, it would have been shivered to atoms beyond all doubt. Toro saw his chance. Nor was he at all slow to avail himself of it. Quick as thought, another blow fell, and out of his grasp flew the Greek's blade. He lay prostrate at the mercy of his adversary. "Beg your life," cried Toro, planting his heavy foot firmly upon his adversary's chest.
The people were right, the Roman toro was promptly slain, and once more the cause of Spain was triumphant. But the queen was persistent, and in spite of the fact that the result of each of these ordeals was popularly considered as a direct sign from heaven, she refused to accept them as final, because her pet project had been rejected.
After about twenty miles over a sandy country covered with oak-bushes and scrub, we entered quite a pretty valley in which there was a ranch at the foot of the Toro. Resting there a while and getting some information, we again started in the direction of a mountain to the north of the Saunas, called the Gavillano.
The chief quoted the death-sentence upon his race pronounced by the Tahitian prophets centuries ago: "E tupu te fau, et toro te farero, e mou te taata!" "The hibiscus shall grow, the coral spread, and man shall cease!" "There were, according to Captain Cook, sixty or seventy thousand Tahitians on this island when the whites came," continued the chief, sadly.
Immediately on receipt of the news from the grange, Ponce sent Captain Miguel del Toro with 40 men to the assistance of Soto Mayor, but he found the settlement in ashes and only the bodies of those who had perished. Salazar's arrival at Capárra with a handful of wounded and exhausted men revealed to Ponce the danger of his situation.
Hunston and Toro were thrown into prison, with the few brigands captured and their discomfited chieftain Mathias. Such was the end of their exploit. When once they were in prison, however, it required some exertion on the part of the authorities to keep them there. The gang were unceasing in their endeavours to release them.
Lord Wellington had arrived there the day before, without being opposed by the enemy; but there had been an affair of cavalry, a short distance beyond the town, in which the hussar brigade particularly distinguished themselves, and took about three hundred prisoners. On the morning of the 3d, we crossed the river; and, marching through the town of Toro, encamped about half a league beyond it.
All the ground about Toro is barren for want of water, which is only to be found at a considerable distance, in one fountain, which flows out of the neighbouring mountains, at the foot of which there are still twelve palm-trees. Near Toro are several wells, which, as the Arabs tell us, were dug by the order of Moses to quiet the clamours of the thirsty Israelites.
The picador sustained some terrific falls, and in his quality of horse had to be taken out repeatedly and sewed up; the banderilleros tormented and eluded the toro with table-covers, one red and two drab, till the espada took him from them, and with due ceremony, after a speech to the president, drove his blade home to the bull's heart.
The terrible almamy began by extorting a great number of presents, and then refused to allow the English to visit Bakel on the Senegal. They might, he said, go through his states, those of Kaarta, to Clego, or they might take the Fouta Toro route. Both these alternatives were equally impossible, as in either case the caravan would have to travel among fanatic tribes.
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