The noise they made attracted a still greater crowd until at last we were surrounded by forty or fifty angry Indians.

The man continued to demand his five _pesos_, the other crying, "Pay him five _pesos_." I was firm, declaring that the man should receive no more than had been promised.

Again the _peso_ was offered, again to be rejected.

At that moment some brilliant genius cried, "If you do not pay five _pesos_ we will break your moulds." And the cry was caught up by the angry crowd: "Yes, we will break the moulds unless you pay five _pesos_." At this threat I told my two companions to stand back out of the way, and then, speaking to him who had suggested the breaking of the moulds, said, pointing to them, "Yes, break the moulds." His ardor cooled.

Turning to another, I said to him, "Come, break the moulds." He began to back away.