Thrown on their own resources
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Deste modo, em caso de ataque dos indios, os moradores da casa do Paquequer não podião contar senão com os seus proprios recursos; e por isso D. Antonio, como homem pratico e avisado que era, havia-se premunido para qualquer occurrencia.
In this way, in case of an Indian attack, the dwellers of the Paquequer house could count on nothing but their own resources; and for that reason Dom Antônio, being the practical and prudent man he was, had forearmed himself against any eventuality.
So in case of an Indian attack, the dwellers of the Paquequer house could count on nothing but their own resources; and therefore Dom Antônio, a practical and prudent man, had forearmed himself against any eventuality.
The isolation that felt romantic a moment ago is now stated as a hard strategic fact: no help is coming. Alencar turns the fortress's solitude into the reason for the private army he is about to describe, and shows Dom Antônio thinking like a commander as much as a lord.
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