text:  The moment of excitement over a reaction takes place the stronger perhaps on account of the cruel reprisals exercised by the uncivilized Indians and still more ferocious half-castes; and while the patriots are rifling the dead bodies of the dragoons and their chief is reading some papers he has found in the pocket of the Spanish commandant Don Manuel bitterly deplores the act of precipitation that has blasted all the hopes of his love and ambition