Butte record., 1856-02-16

hhAS iAASO OiOCSII vas IOi lHc 0lfI.
In moment, as by sheer strength, he
had jerked her safely up into the road;
while tie Saniards recoild right and
left, fancying him for the moment some
moutain giant or supernatural foe. His
hurrah undeceived them in an instant,
and a cry of English! Lutheran
dogs" arose, but arose too late. The
men Of Devon had followed their cap
tain's lead; storm of arrows left FIVE
Spaniards dead, and dozen more
wounded, and down leapt Yeo, his white
hair streaming behind him, with TWEEN
ty good swords more, and the work Of
death began.
The Spaniards fought like lions; but
had no time to fix their arquebuses on
the crutches; no room in that narrow
path, to use their pixies. The English
had the wall Of thom, and to have the
wall there, was to have the foes life
at their mercy. Five desperate min
utes, and not a living Spaniard stood
upon those steps; and certainly no liv-
ing one lay in the green abyss below.
Two only, who were behind the rest,
happening to be in full armor, escaped
without mortal wound, and fled down
the hill again.
I. After them, Michael Evans and
Simon Hard; and catch them, if they
run league"
The two long and lean Clovelly men
active as deer from forest training, ran
two feet for the Spaniards' one; and
IN ten minutes returned, having done
their work; while Amyas and his men
hurried past the Iniaps, to help Cary
and the party forward, where shouts
and musket shots announced a sharp
afray.
Their arrival settled the matter
All the Spaniards fell but three or four,
who scrambled down the crannies of the
cliff.
''Let not one of them escape. Slay
them as Israel slew Amalek!o cried
Yeo, as he bent over; and ere the
wretches could reach a place Of shell
ter, an arrow was quivering into each
body, as it rolled ifeless down the
rocks"
'Now then, loose the Indians"
They found armorer's tools on one
of the dead bodies, and it was done.
''We are your friends" said Am
yas. 'All we ask of you, is, that you
shall help us to carry this gold down
to the Magdalena, and then you are
free"
Some few of the younger groveled at
his knees, and kissed his feet, hailing
him as the child of the Sun; but the
most part kept a stolid indifference, and
when freed from their fetters, sat qui-
city down where they stood, staring
into vacancy. The iron had entered
too deeply into their soul. They
seemed past hope, enjoyment, even un-
derstanding.
But the young girl, who was last of
all, in the line, as soon as she was
looscd, sprang to her fathers body,
speaking no word, lifted it in her thin
arms, laid it across her knees, kissed
the fallen lips, stroked the furrowed
checks, murmure d inarticulate sounds
like the cooing of the woodland dove,
of which none knew the meaning but
she, and he who heard not, for his soul
had long since fed. Suddenly the
truth flashed on her; silent as ever, she
drew one long heaving breath, and
rose erect, the body in her arms.
Another moment, and she had leap
ed into the abyss.
They watched her dark and slender
limbs, twincd closely round the old
mans corpse turn over, and over, till
a crash among the leaves, and a scream
among the birds told that she had
reached the trees; and the green roof
hid her from their view.
"Brave lassl' shouted sailor.
Magnificent. Stuff such as that stirs
ones heart like the sound of a trum-
pet!