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bayonets and machetes, drove the mob back from the 

 door, and, branding them as robbers and murderers, 

 with his w^hite hair streaming in the vrind, poured out 

 such a torrent of indignation and contempt, that the In- 

 dians, amazed at his audacity, desisted. After this, 

 with an almost wanton exposure of life, he was seen 

 in the midst of every mob. To the astonishment of 

 everybody, he was not killed ; and the foreign residents 

 presented him a unanimous letter of thanks for his fear- 

 less and successful exertions in the protection of life 

 and property. 



Pending the negotiation, Carrera, dressed in Prem's 

 uniform, endeavoured to restrain his tumultuous follow- 

 ers ; but several times he said that he could not himself 

 resist the temptation to sack Klee's house, and those of 

 the other Ingleses. There was a strange dash of fanat- 

 icism in the character of this lawless chieftain. The 

 battle-cry of his hordes was " Viva la religion !" The 

 palace of the archbishop had been suffered to be used 

 as a theatre by the Liberals ; Carrera demanded the 

 keys, and, putting them in his pocket, declared that, to 

 prevent any future pollution, it should not be opened 

 again until the banished archbishop returned to occu- 

 py it. 



At length the terms upon which he consented to with- 

 draw were agreed upon, viz., eleven thousand dollars 

 in silver, ten thousand to be distributed among his fol- 

 lowers, and one thousand for his own share ; a thou- 

 sand muskets, and a commission as lieutenant-colonel 

 for himself. The amount of money was small as the 

 price of relief from such imminent danger, but it was 

 an immense sum in the eyes of Carrera and his follow- 

 ers, few of whom were worth more than the rags on 

 their backs and the stolen arms in their hands ; and it 



