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Starting upon his legs, he ran with closed eyes full butt against the opposite wall, and finding the masonry harder than his 
ugly head, made divers uncouth attempts to scramble over, pawing down the loose stones, and in his bursting Bae, kick- 
ing them backwards and forwards among the wild tobacco plants. ‘A brisk fire from the gateway deterred him from 
following up any decided attempt in that quarter, although as he raved round and round the enclosure, and flew from one 
compartment to another, he eyed it perpetually. Bullet after bullet whacked against his devoted. ribs, and it being next to 
impossible to take any aim, no less than twenty-seven had struck the miserable fellow before he finally gave in—his 
riddled carcase, as well as the foam which had churned around his chops, having by that time assumed a dye of crimson. 
Fearful indeed was the uproar that attended the division of his mutilated remains a large party of famished Baquaina 
females, whose wardrobes were even more remarkably slender than usual, rushing forth like so many weird witches, and 
leaving in the course of a few hours nothing to attest the slaughter, saving a pool of blood! 
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Zions ofhinocoras Arecanias ous preserved by Capt} Larres 
