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Updated: May 9, 2025
Depredations are still committed, which render it necessary to keep up a small force. One or two huts which were seen in the neighborhood of the bay, are built on posts twenty feet from the ground, and into them they ascend by ladders, which are hauled up after the occupants have entered. These, it is said, are the sleeping-huts, and are so built for the purpose of preventing surprise at night.
"Ay, he's richt," said the Scotchman as he watched him go. "Tom Pollard, man, I hinna prayed for years, but I am praying to-nicht. I ought to be a different man, for I ken the fundamentals of releegion, but I'm giving my heart to God to-nicht; I am for sure." Tom followed the Scotchman out of the canteen towards one of the numerous sleeping-huts.
He specifies all the items of mansions and farm-houses attacked and looted, or "harried," as he calls it the doors staved in, the wainscoting pulled down the windows smashed the furniture made firewood of the pleasant plantations cut down to build sleeping-huts the linen, plate, and other valuables carried off: he will even, perchance, tell how they were distributed who it was that managed to feather his nest with the plunder, and who it was that was disappointed and cheated.
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