text:  Herrera himself who had each moment been expecting to receive a volley from some ambushed foe was beginning to think the danger over when a man dressed in red uniform with a scarlet cap upon his head and mounted on a white horse suddenly appeared at the end of the pass and tossing his lance which he carried at the trail into his bridle hand put a trumpet that was slung round his neck to his mouth and blew a loud and startling blast