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Without any breakfast, we returned by the same route by which we had come, at four miles an hour, till half the way was cleared, when the king said, laughing, "Bana, are you hungry?" a ridiculous question after twenty-four hours of starvation, which he knew full well and led the way into a plantain-grove, where the first hut that was found was turned inside out for the king's accommodation, and picnic was prepared.
At full speed they swept through a gap in the hedge, and rushed into the plantain-grove before the enemy had time to reload. But when the greasers saw them coming on fiercely, their hearts failed them, and, turning their backs, they fled towards the town. Never were filibusters or men-of-war better pleased than now! They rattled on furiously behind the nimble greasers.
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