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"We must take them, Bryan, without loss of time," I heard our captain observe, as I was sent up with a message to him. Scarcely had he uttered the words when the signal to land was made. In a wonderfully few moments the boats were manned and crowded with small-arms men, and with ladders and crowbar bearers. I accompanied Mr Johnson with the ladder-bearers' party.
'I know it, sir I know it, groaned Wilkes. 'Then shout, man! Fifty men might do it yet, but every moment is odds against. See the swarm on the rampart there, to the right! They shouted together, but in vain. Four or five ladder-bearers mounted the slope, but only to be shot down almost at their feet.
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