Crossword-Solution: BARRERA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

They claimed the offering of human sacrifices by their tribe to be an old custom and, as far as they knew the only way to appease the wrath of the evil spirits, but said if they were ordered to give the custom up they would do so even if the devil got them all." Then follows the statement of an eye-witness to the ceremony: "My name is Modesta Barrera; I live in the town of Santa Cruz, my father being a Visayan, my mother a Bagobo.

Like a tornado he swept across the ring, killed a horse with a single thrust, sent the picador crashing against the _barrera_; and quick as a wild cat, strong as an African lion, wheeled to lift another animal and its rider on his horns.

You don’t see such a bull in ten thousand,” men said to each other, as Vivillo flung the dead horse on the sand, tumbling the picador over the _barrera_ into the _callijon_, and raced off gamely to a third duel.

Once it seemed that Vivillo would be over the _barrera_, in the _callijon_, and there was a stampede of all the onlookers there.

Perhaps I had vaguely hoped that Vivillo would vault the _barrera_, and refuse to be coaxed back again; but, even if he had, he could not have saved himself, and might have had to die some death less glorious than by the _espada’s_ blade.