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countenances of the dead. On several of these, the traces of in- 

 tense and protracted agony were frightfully apparent. The face 

 of the colonel betrayed no evidence of suffering, and that of 

 young Florine still wore its Caliban grin of defiance and derision, 

 I turned away from it to look at the others. The next upon 

 whom my eye fell was the poor Swede, in whom I had taken so 

 much interest. He had received several balls through the breast, 

 his hair was gory, and his lustreless and dead eyes wide open, 

 but the muscles of the face were not contracted, and I hoped he 

 had passed away without much suffering; but upon moving to 

 the other side, my blood curdled, when I perceived that the 

 whole back of the head had been blown away, exhibiting the 

 empty, brainless skull. But enough, and too much of all this. I 

 would not be thought a lover of the horrible. 



The bodies were buried on the same day. The head of the 

 colonel was severed from the trunk, and hung in chains near 

 where the battle was fought. The head and right arm of Florine 

 were similarly suspended on the spot where the murder of Por- 

 tales was committed, and in a few days people ceased to talk, or 

 even think of the tragical fate of the insurgents. 



But there are some who will think of them, who will weep 

 and lament for them through long years of sorrow. Mothers are 

 mourning for their children, and " will not be comforted," 

 Wives, sons, and daughters are drinking the waters of affliction, 

 embittered an hundred fold by the violent death of those who 

 were dear to them ! Vidaurre had a mother, wife, and children ; 

 the Swede had a wife and mother in his own country ; many 

 more of them were similarly circumstanced, and even the ruffian 

 Florine will be wept for by the partial eyes of maternal tender- 

 ness. 



There was another actor in this revolt whom we have lost sight 

 offer some time. Colonel Vidaurre's younger brother, the com- 

 mandante of the Rezguardo. Although he was fully engaged in 



