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CHAPTER XXV
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Gabriel Baraona fell, whether dead or not we could not tell.
Juan Morcillo and Gonzalo Fernandez sent a scream for aid up to La Navidad.

Now they were hidden as some small thing by furious bees.

Diego de Arana rushed for his sword.

"Down and cut them out!" Diego Minas fired the big lombard, but for fear of hurting our three men sent wide the ball.

We looked for terror always from the flame, the smoke and great noise, and so there was terror here for a moment and a bearing back in which Juan and Gonzalo got loose and made a little way up path.


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