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"The Officers and Sergt-Major escaped at the back 

 of the building, while Colonel Bush and Adjutant 

 Bentley came down the hill. The Colonel command- 

 ed the mutineers to lay down their arms, and was 

 answered by an irregular discharge of musketry, the 

 stones or balls with which they were loaded rattled 

 harmlessly amongst the leaves of the tree under 

 which he and the Adjutant were standing. On this 

 Colonel Bush desired Mr. Bently to make the best of 

 his way to St. James for all the disposable force of the 

 89th regiment there to come to his assistance. Mr. 

 Bently then went into the stable, saddled his horse, 

 mounted and had to make his way through the 

 mutineers before he could get to St. Joseph and 

 thence by road to Port-of-Spain ; he eventually 

 reached St. James where the troops were collected 

 and sent to St. Joseph which they did not reach till 



the affair was over." 



66 A body of Mutineers made their way towards 

 Ardma going east as Daaga had promised to lead 

 them back to their own country by this way. They 

 were stopped at Arima by a company of militia sta- 

 tioned there." 



6 6 Never was a premeditated mutiny so wild and 

 ill planned. Their chiefs, Daaga and Ogston, seemed 

 to have little command of their subordinates, and the 

 whole acted more like a set of wild beasts who had 

 broken their cages than men resolved on war. They 

 did not even know how to place their muskets to take 

 aim. They discharged them from their hips and 

 held them more like mops than like deadly firearms. 



