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surrounded. Meanwhile, Captain Cracroft and his sixty blue jackets stormed the pah, 

 and crying " Make a back," one after another vaulted on each other's backs until they 

 were level with the top of the fence, and thus found entrance to the stronghold. They 

 were unsupported, however, and had to retire, the entire force returning to New Ply- 



THE SIEGE OF PUKERANGIORA. 



