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The pirate-guns were soon dismounted, their stockade was battered down, and when a party at last landed, with the captain at their head, and Edgar with his diving friends close at his heels, they were driven out of their fortification into the woods. Previously to this, however, all the women and children had been sent further into the bush, so that the attacking party met none but fighting-men.
Many rifle-shots were fired at him, but in vain. He seemed to bear a charmed life. "Can none of you pick him off?" said the captain of the gun-boat. Twenty rifles replied to the words, and the man's red jacket was seen to be torn in many places, but himself remained unhurt! At last the pirate-guns were silenced in two of the prows, only the chief's maintaining an obstinate fire.
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