CONTEST RENEWED STARVATION. 



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vigilance by day and by night — by land and by water. The 

 brigantines were still secure. They swept the lake continually 

 and cut off supplies designed for the capital. The Spaniards 

 hermetically sealed the causeways with their cannon, and thus, at 

 length, was the city that would not yield to storm given over to 

 starvation. 



