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several days, and each house a fortress, and com-munications cut from one to the other through thewalls, and the hole closed up again as soon as thehouse was taken; and pass on to the next.

“Imprecationswere what I could distinguish, ashastily we weighed, and weathering Carmel Cape,the last sounds borne on the storm were hellishlaughter, groans of dying men, and the long, longshriek of violated women.” 1

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