muskeet

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We observed, also, that the cavalry, which had been keeping itself at a safe distance, was now put in motion, and formed up close to the island of muskeet trees, to which the right flank of the infantry was also extending itself. Thence they had clear ground for a charge down upon us. Meanwhile, what had become of the twelve men whom we had left in the island?

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844