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next day. But this would not satisfy them ; 

 they proclaimed him that evening by heralds 

 in form, throughout the city, and placed his 

 portrait, illuminated, in the gallery of the 

 town-house. 



The French were first publicly insult- 

 ed in the coffee-house, from whence they 

 were obliged to withdraw; and the French 

 captain left Caraccas privately, about eight 

 o'clock that night, escorted by a detachment 

 of soldiers, and so saved his life ; for about 

 ten o'clock his person was demanded of the 

 governor by the populace ; and when they 

 learned that he was gone, three hundred 

 men followed to put him to death. 



Though coldly received by the governor, 

 I was surrounded by all the respectable in- 

 habitants of the city, and hailed as their 

 deliverer. The news which 1 gave them 



