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A rifle-shot had struck him in the vertebra of the neck, causing instantaneous death. Meanwhile, King Ben Cracko had made a bolt to escape, but was seized by his long calico robe; which, however, gave way, leaving him literally naked in the midst of his enemies. A shot brought him to the ground; but he sprang to his feet, still struggling to escape.
Little pig! Let me come in!" "No, no! By the hair on my chinny-chin-chin I will not let you in," said the second little pig, bravely. "Then I'll puff and I'll blow, and I'll puff and I'll blow, and blow your house in!" howled the wolf. Then he puffed out his cheeks, and he took a long breath and he blew with all his might and main and suddenly: "Cracko!"
Our force, on being disembarked, was stationed in line, opposite the town of Little Berebee, and the wood in its immediate vicinity. Many of the officers went up to the Palaver House, a temporary shed erected for the occasion, about fifty yards from the town-gate. King Ben Cracko now making his appearance, with five or six headmen or kings of the neighboring tribes, the palaver began.
Then the boy once more started to tie Jollie to the line. “Bungo!” went a bean on his left ear, hitting him quite hard. “Stop that!” the boy cried, winking his eyes very fast. “Cracko!” went a bean on his right ear, for Bawly was blowing them very fast now.
Anchored at half past five P.M., off Little Berebee. Palaver at Little Berebee Death of the Interpreter and King Ben Cracko, and burning of the Town Battle with the Natives, and Conflagration of several Towns Turkey Buzzards A Love-Letter Moral Reflections Treaty of Grand Berebee Prince Jumbo and his Father Native system of Expresses Curiosity of the Natives. December 13.
We also made prizes of several canoes, one of which was built for war, and capable of carrying forty men. The wounded King Cracko, likewise, was taken on board the frigate, where, next morning, he breathed his last; thus expiating the outrage in which, two years before, he had been a principal actor. We afterwards understood that the natives suffered a loss of eight killed and two wounded.
He declared that Captain Farwell had killed two natives, and that old King Cracko, since deceased, had punished the captain by death, in the exercise of his legitimate authority. He denied that the tribe had participated in Captain Farwell's murder, or in those of the mate and crew, or in the robbery of the vessel; affirming that the schooner had gone ashore, and that everything was lost.
Within a space of twelve miles along the beach, there are five or six families of Fishmen, ruled by different members of the Cracko family, of which Ben Cracko of Half Berebee is the head. All these towns were implicated in the plot, and received a share of the plunder. A Portuguese schooner had been taken, and her crew murdered, at the same place, a year before.
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