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Updated: May 31, 2025
After dinner we drove to the station, where we found all our own party assembled, and many more people, who had come to see us off. I was given the Chilian bit used for the horse I rode to-day, as a remembrance of my visit.
This was because of the fact that the Peruvians had constructed several fast torpedo-boats which prowled round the fleet after dark and attempted to torpedo the vessels composing it; and also to avoid the peril of the floating mines which the enemy put into the water at the mouth of the harbour and allowed to drift down upon the Chilian vessels with the tide.
Nevertheless, I can understand that your risk was greater had you remained. You have heard, I suppose, that Peru is now independent?” “No, indeed,” Stephen replied. “Was there a great battle?” “There was no fighting at all. The Chilian fleet so hemmed in the Spaniards that neither supplies nor reinforcements could reach them, so they agreed to evacuate the country.
I am a colonel in the Chilian army, or was, before I resigned." The old lady's sightless eyes were fixed on his face, as if listening for the echo of another voice in his deep quiet tones. "Your voice is deeper than your father's ever was," she said; and all the while her trembling fingers moved lovingly over his face, touching the deep cut from cheek-bone to jaw with soft inquiry.
It was not till all his offers to me to abandon my allegiance to Chili, and to join him in his defection had proved unavailing, that he sought to revenge himself by such charges, well knowing that Zenteno and his party in the Chilian ministry would second any chance of injuring me in public estimation from their unabating personal enmity to me, arising from my constant opposition to their selfish measures for private advantage.
Jack tried to pacify him by saying: "Pardon me, senor capitan, but the ship will not sink at once if at all. You have plenty of time in which to save your lives." "But the Chilian! We shall be made prisoners of war. Heaven protect me! I was a fool to listen to you, Senor North." "It is too late to think of that now. It is your duty to see if something cannot be done to stop the ship's leak."
On the Chilian side the loss was seven men killed and nine wounded.
It could not be the Chilian, for he would never be making all that disturbance unless indeed he had gone mad under the stress of being hunted so it must necessarily be a stray Peruvian soldier.
The next day, on our return, we met seven very wild-looking Indians, of whom some were caciques that had just received from the Chilian government their yearly small stipend for having long remained faithful. They were fine-looking men, and they rode one after the other, with most gloomy faces.
The brave man and the coward, the erect spirit fighting to the last, and the poor creature that despairs from the first, all are confounded in one undistinguishing end by sudden strangulation. This was the original defect of the plan. The sudden surprise, and the scientific noosing as with a Chilian lasso, constituted in fact a main feature of Thuggee.
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