“VILLAGES” на русском языке

“To prevent desertions the Spaniards went to villages to which the deserters belonged, and here, as a warning, they caught at random a dozen women, children, and old men and hanged them as punishment for the desertion of men they could not capture.

And this reminds me, boys, we’ll have to go Out to a few villages near by to buy burros, which we need for carrying our packs and for other services at the camp.

They had expected that they might have to visit a dozen Indian villages before finding buyers who were ready to buy burros and pay real money.

The prisoners begin to talk with a few of the soldiers and find that they have acquaintances in common, or that they know the villages where some of the soldiers were born.

One proposed that they use this site for headquarters from which to raid the villages in the valley.

Packtrains of burros or mules passing through the villages on the slopes of the Sierra Madre are no novelty.

“Now the officials, all armed, went raiding all the villages and brought in as many men as they could capture.

Entire villages.

The Mexican peons returned to their near-by villages.

“So there was nothing to do but again raid the villages.

No villages dotted the hills around it, either.