1825, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Notes on Mexico, Made in the Autumn of 1822[1]:
They all go armed with at least a machete, a short sword with a very stout blade, that sometimes serves as a hatchet.
1839, Charles Augustus Murray, Travels in North America During the Years 1834, 1835 & 1836[2]:
[...] he then took his pig, his "machete" (a kind of bill-hook with which they cut sugar-cane, wood, &c.), and whatever little moveable property he possessed, and gathering it all into a heap under a tree, hung himself over it.
2006, John Lawrence Tone, War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898[3]:
According to Boza, Spanish soldiers who once experienced a machete charge could never get out of their minds the horrible "chis!chis!" sound made by the machete when it severed a neck.
2000, Joaquín Bestard Vásquez, El cuello del Jaguar: Novela[5]:
[...] porque tampoco faltó quien más tarde asegurara que Tun Ceh fue la primera víctima cobrada por el machete de sus hermanos, y alguno se puso sus ropas y sus alpargatas, amén del sombrero.
