Crossword-Solution: MIOS 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

You see that, don't you, _hijos mios_?" They do see the top of a solitary tree with one branch broken off, rising above the plain at about two miles' distance; and they can tell it to be the well-known species called _quebracha_--an abbreviation of _quebrahacha_, or "axe-breaker," so named from the hardness of its wood.

Then we may move them elsewhere, and if we're to have a run for it, remember, _hijos mios_, 'twill be a race for our lives.

These alleys are not uncommon in Japan, for we saw a similar one in the vicinity of Nangasaky, and another in the island of Meac-Sima." [Illustration: Coast of Japan.] The _Nadiejeda_ had hardly anchored at the entrance to Nagasaki harbour before Kruzenstern saw several _daïmios_ climb on board, who had come to forbid him to advance further.

Curse them both, curse----" "Well, curse away, but who, what?" "I curse, señores mios," and the scout's words grated in rage and chagrin, "I curse His Excellency the general-of-division-in-chief of the army of operations, Don Leonardo Marquez.

The ensuing phrase means the month from the 15th of July to the 15th of August, _Mios crochaidh nan con_, so called as it is supposed to be the hottest, if not the most waterless, month in the isles.