Storia do Mogor 116.9

116.9

For this reason we agreed, I and Luis Beicao, a French surgeon, Guilherme (William), an Englishman, and Domingo de Saa, a Portuguese who had formerly been a cavalry soldier in Portugal, to give the next morning during the march, and in the rajah's presence, a demonstration of our mode of fighting on horseback. We rode out with our carbines, two pistols in our holsters and two in our waist-belts, and carrying our swords. We rode two and two and began to career about, our horses being excellent. Then first of all we skirmished with the carbine, and after some circling and recircling, letting off our pistols, we made pretence of flight and pursuit. Then, turning round and making a half-circle, the fugitive attacked the pursuer and let off his pistol. Thus we went on till all our charges were fired off, of course without bullets. Then, laying hand upon our swords [94], we made gestures as if giving sword-cuts, which the others parried.