However, at the speed they are riding it will take them an hour or more to reach the scene of our skirmish, and then there is coming back.

Everything depends on how soon the last of them go by.

If we have only a few minutes start they will never overtake us, and once on the other side of Los Teycos we shall be safe both from discovery and pursuit.

European cavalry are of no use in a Venezuelan forest; and I don't think these Irun fellows have any blood-hounds." "Blood-hounds! You surely don't mean to say that the Spaniards use blood-hounds ?" "I mean nothing else.

General Griscelli, who holds the chief command in the district of San Felipe, keeps a pack of blood-hounds, which he got from Cuba.