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lost on this memorable occasion;" but he does not 

 doubt that he himself would carry some of the wounds 

 he then received to his grave. 



In summing up his story, which, he says, gives but 

 a faint outline of a few of the many severe en- 

 counters in which he had been engaged, Gillespie in- 

 forms us that he had received "no less than forty-two 

 wounds on different parts of his body, and all in- 

 flicted by these extraordinary characters." The drift 

 of his narrative is to make out that he was triumph- 

 antly successful in his object on all occasions. But 

 without going quite so far as to accept that view 

 without qualification, he was, beyond doubt, a fellow 

 governed by a determined will and a sort of coarse 

 reckless courage; and animated by an unflagging 

 zeal in a line of duty that accorded with his tastes. 

 Into his character and connections otherwise we need 

 not enquire too curiously; only there is evidence to 

 show that the rough and dangerous, if unscrupulous, 

 service he rendered was not unappreciated by the 

 legitimate traders of the district. And the facts that 

 are beyond dispute concerning the transactions in 

 which he was engaged, and the seizures he made * 

 illustrate, in a somewhat vivid fashion, both the 

 extent and character of the smuggling that prevailed 

 up to fifty years ago. 



* For Abstract of Gillespie's Seizures, see Appendix (5). 



