Revolts are conducted scientifically in that region.

Their stage management is perfect, and the cumbrous methods of effete civilizations might well take note of the speed, thoroughness, and efficiency with which a change of government is effected.
For instance, what could be more admirable than the scaring of the bird by General Russo?
He drew up his three batteries on the wharf opposite the unsuspecting _Andorinha_, and endeavored to plant twelve shells in the locality of her engine-room without the least hesitation.

There was no thought of demanding her surrender, or any quixotic nonsense of that sort.

In the first place, no man would act as herald, since he would be shot or stabbed the instant his errand became known; in the second, as Hozier had explained to Iris, the gunboat could slip her cable very quickly, and Russo's artillerists might miss a moving object.
As it was, every gun scored, though the elevation was rather high.

The shells made a sad mess of the superstructure, but left the engines intact.