What is "hillsmen"

Usage examples of "hillsmen".

On the stone is written the countersign that all hillsmen heed, and the tribe-call I know also.

Here was the last refuge of the hillsmen if they should ever be driven from the Neck of Baroob.

Even as he spoke the hillsmen gave the word, and two score men ran down behind the rocks, mounted, and were instantly away by the road that led to the Koongat Bridge.

In the end the pest would have carried me to death, as a jackal carries the broken meats to his den, if our hillsmen had not come.

For an hour I fought, and five of them I killed and seven wounded, and then at the shouts of our hillsmen they fled at last.

If he speak for the hillsmen and say that all shall be well with thee, and thy city be restored when Pango Dooni sits in the Palace of the Dakoon, then shalt thou join with them, that there may be peace in the land, for Pango Dooni and the son of Pango Dooni be brave strong men.

But if he will not promise for the hillsmen, then shalt thou keep the secret of the Palace, and abide the will of God.

The hillsmen clove the besiegers through like a piece of pasteboard, and turning, rode back again through the broken ranks, their battle-call ringing high above the clash of steel.

Cumner, the Governor, and McDermot heard the cry of the hillsmen, too, and took heart.

The hillsmen rode upon the frenzied rebels, and were swallowed up by the great mass of them, so that they seemed lost.

Panic and flight came after, and the hillsmen and the little garrison were masters of the field.

At the Residency another thousand men encamped, with a hundred hillsmen and eighty English, under the command of Tang-a-Dahit and McDermot.

By the Fountain of the Sweet Waters, which is over against the Tomb where the Dakoon should sleep, another thousand men were patrolled, with a hundred hillsmen, commanded by a kinsman of Pango Dooni.

Along the line of the Bazaar ranged another thousand men, armed only with krises, under the command of the heir of the late Dakoon, and with these were a hundred and fifty mounted hillsmen, watchful and deliberate.

Pango Dooni had carefully picked the hillsmen whom he had sent to the Bazaar, and their captain was the most fearless and the wariest fighter from the Neck of Baroob, save Pango Dooni himself.