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A common ballad, each line of which begins with this word, and is sung, or rather roared out, by the "monteros," or country people on their journeys, and at their labours in the field.
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Indians of the forests, and the Indians heretofore nomadic* (Indios monteros and Indios llaneros, or andantes).
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They believed they were menaced with an attack of Indios monteros (wild Indians called mountaineers); and the people were not perfectly tranquilized, till they saw the birds soaring in the air, and continuing their migration towards the mouths of the Orinoco.
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In consequence of this peaceful intercourse, many of the Indios monteros came and established themselves some time ago in the mission.
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In fact the wild Indians (Indios monteros) experience the greater difficulty in accustoming themselves to the life of the missions, as they suffer in the
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They were ciboleros, vaqueros, rancheros, monteros; men who in their frequent association with the mountain men, the Gallic and
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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The broad fields below were waving with cane and maize, and cottages of the _monteros_ were scattered among them, each with its tuft of bamboos and its little grove of plantains.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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We now and then met the _monteros_ themselves scudding along on their little horses, in that pace which we call a rack.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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Sometimes we passed the cottages of the _monteros_, or peasants, built often of palm-leaves, the walls formed of the broad sheath of the leaf, fastened to posts of bamboo, and the roof thatched with the long plume-like leaf itself.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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In another quarter were six or eight monteros on horseback, in their invariable costume of Panama hats, shirts and pantaloons, with holsters to their saddles, and most of them with swords lashed to their sides.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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