Crossword-Solution: HUEMUL 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Before the introduction of European cattle into Chili, the natives must have employed the skins of the original animals of the country, probably of the _guemul_ or _huemul_, the equus bisulcus of Molina and other naturalists, an animal having some resemblance to a horse but with cloven hoofs--E.] It may be proper to relate what I noticed on a journey in that country, having set out from Mendoza in the province of Cujo, on the 27th of April 1783, with post horses for Buenos Ayres.

This had forthwith exploded, and, in its turn, blown up the remainder, causing a most terrible catastrophe; for, when the smoke of the explosion cleared away, there was not a trace of the _Huemul_ left upon the surface of the water.

But he fell into the error of mistaking the cruiser for the _Huemul_, and of believing that the crews of both vessels, corrupted by Chilian gold, had seized the ships, after murdering their officers.

Although he could not account for this sudden commencement of hostilities on the part of the _Union_, Jim on his own part had only been waiting for the proper moment to open fire himself, and now he, in turn, gave Villavicencio a most unpleasant surprise by returning his fire with a very much larger gun than the Peruvian imagined that the _Huemul_ carried.

Something had happened to the _Huemul_, that was perfectly clear, and the _Miraflores_ was also in Chilian hands; he therefore considered that he was not justified in risking the _Union_ any longer in an engagement which could have but one ending, considering the fact that the corvette was now the only effective ship which the Peruvians possessed in their sadly depleted navy.