"If you wake just as daylight breaks please rouse me," he said.
"I shall wake, señor; I generally get up at daybreak. That is the best time for work down in the plain, and I generally contrive to get everything done before breakfast at seven."
Harry slept soundly until he was called.
"The sky is just beginning to get light, señor."
He turned out at once. José was already feeding the mules.
"You had better come along with me, José, and bring that gun of yours with you. If the savages do attack, it will be well to make a forcible impression on them."
Greatly pleased with the permission, José took up the old musket he carried and accompanied Harry.
"What have you got in that gun, José?"
"The charge of buck-shot that you gave me the other day, señor."
"All right! but don't fire unless they get close. The shot will not carry far like a bullet; but if fired when they are close it is better than any bullet, for you might hit half a dozen of them at once."