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[Carrie B. <dam...@lm...>]

Ies. This fact accounts for the comparatively little
mischief they did in proportion to the quantity

of ammunition thrown away. 'The officers and sergeant-major escaped
at the back of the building, while Colonel Bush and Adjutant Bentley
came down a little hill. The colonel commanded the mutineers to lay
down their arms, and was answered by an irregular discharge of balls,
which rattled amongst the leaves of a tree under which he and the
adjutant
were standing. On this Colonel Bush desired Mr. Bentley to make the
best of his way to St. James's Barracks for
all the disposable force of the 89th Regiment.
The officers made

good their retreat, and the adjutant got into the stable where his
horse was. He saddled and bridled the animal while the shots were
coming into the stable, without either man or beast getting injured.
The officer mounted,
but had to make his way through the mutineers before
he could get into San Josef, the barracks standing on an eminence above
the little town. On seeing
the adjutant mounted, the mutineers set up a thrilling howl, and
commenced firing at him. He discerned the gigantic figure of

Daaga (alias Donald Stewart), with

his musket at the trail: he spurred h