text:  On reaching the street however he found a great crowd of men women and even children assembled who occupied the plaza and all the adjacent streets and received him with loud cries of "Death to the Empecinado! _Muera el ladron y mal Cristiano_!" The armed men whom he had left in the town-house fired several shots at him from the windows but nobody dared to lay hands upon him as he marched slowly and steadily through the crowd trabuco in hand and casting glances on either side that made those upon whom they fell shrink involuntarily backwards