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pressgang, and was for the present safely locked in 
prison, with a lot of other young fellows, until the 
authorities should decide what to do with him. For¬ 
tunately, Colonel Gross, the Military Governor of 
Matagalpa, was staying at the same hotel as we did, 
and he was good enough to procure poor Cleto’s dis¬ 
charge, and thus enable him to accompany Captain 
Holman to Chontales. 
