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 in its way. All these men without hesitation trampled down those who were before them, trying to press forward over their bodies, carried away by the wave of rage and destruction.

I succeeded in reaching the court-yard of one of the houses in this street through the fence of planks which divided it from the court-yard of the neighbouring house.

From this I went on to the next, and so on, until I found myself in the densest part of the crowd. The earth seemed to shake under the feet of the falling and maddened mob, which filled the court yard of a large house, which had others like it adjoining.

With lifted heads these men invaded the houses; their faces were wild; in their open mouths their shining, sharply pointed teeth gleamed. They pushed each other’s sides with fists, and climbed and threw themselves upon the roofs of