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Page 120
... watch and guard the passes so that they [ the enemy ] should not come from the neighbouring pueblos and attack our ... watch from night fall until midnight , and from midnight until two hours before dawn another company , also of forty ...
... watch and guard the passes so that they [ the enemy ] should not come from the neighbouring pueblos and attack our ... watch from night fall until midnight , and from midnight until two hours before dawn another company , also of forty ...
Page 121
Hakluyt Society. THE NIGHT WATCHES . 121 leave their post but we slept there on the ground ; this [ second ] watch is called the modorra , 1 and soon another forty soldiers came and kept the alba [ dawn ] watch , which is the two hours ...
Hakluyt Society. THE NIGHT WATCHES . 121 leave their post but we slept there on the ground ; this [ second ] watch is called the modorra , 1 and soon another forty soldiers came and kept the alba [ dawn ] watch , which is the two hours ...
Page 135
... watch ; and so that the launches should not be able to assist us , stakes had been placed in most parts of the water of the lake so that the launches might get impaled on them . They came on with so furious an impetus that had it not ...
... watch ; and so that the launches should not be able to assist us , stakes had been placed in most parts of the water of the lake so that the launches might get impaled on them . They came on with so furious an impetus that had it not ...
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