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There is one remark which has been often made. It is this: That, generally speaking, men who delight to dabble in gore -- who unhesitatingly commit the most atrocious cruelties, and exercise their powers in exciting the terror they love to inspire -- are cowards; and when they happen to meet with effective resistance, their cowardice falls to a baseness beyond comparison. Jackals and hyenas are ferocious and cowardly; men are jackals and hyenas -- the thing is explained.
At the answer of the leader of the strangers, the _mashorqueras_ became convulsed with terror. They comprehended that they were face to face with resolute foes, without having it in their power to retreat an inch. They crowded close to each other, and fixed their eyes in fright and amazement on the six men who, sitting calmly and impassively before them, bid them defiance.