Excerpt from The Damsel of Darien, Vol. 2 of 2<br><br>The pride of the fugitive chief, stung as it was, by the little regard which had been given to his counsel, was yet content with this single expression of mortification. He led the warriors who were entrusted to his command' apart from the rest, and endeavoured to school them in a portion of his policy. He taught them in few words a knowledge of the kind of armour which protected the Spaniard from his arrow - of the coverings for the breast and arms made of iron, such as were worn by the cap tains, and that inferior substitute, known as the escaupil, a coat padded with cotton, which constituted the chief defence of the common men. He 'counselled them to shoot at the horse rather than the man who bestrode him -disabused their minds of the belief that the steed and rider were one - and satisfied them of the ease with which they might despatch the fallen rider with their clubs, when once they had wounded or slain the steed. He showed them where the several pieces of armour were usually joined together, and the parts most easily pene trable by their arrows, at which he required them to aim. The thigh, he counselled them to select as a preferable mark to that of any other part of the body, as being sel dom protected; for though not a part where a fatal wound might be' often inflicted, yet, to disable a Span iard was, perhaps, sufficient, with their far'superior num bers, to render his death subsequently certain from the use of the war-club.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.