The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales. Майн Рид
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Mayne Reid
The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066173135
Table of Contents
Story 1, Chapter II.
The Escape of El Cojo.
Despite the chagrin I felt at being literally hors de combat, I could not at this moment avoid surrendering myself to a feeling of exultation.
Both my chagrin and exultation were suddenly checked. A spectacle was before my eyes that inspired me with a vivid hope—a dream of glory.
Like a string of white ants descending the side of one of their steepest “hills,” I perceived a long line moving down the face of the opposite cliff. In the distance—a mile or more—they looked no larger than termites. Like them, too, they were of whitish colour. For all that, I knew they were men—soldiers in the cheap cotton uniforms of the Mexican infantry.
Without any strain upon my powers of ratiocination, I divined that they were fugitives from the field above, who, in their