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468 by relating a circumstantial account of the murder of eight men, while I was absent in the interior. These were all miners, and they considerately confined their operations to carving one another. Three were killed in a little hamlet I passed through, he said, just after I left it, and yet I did not see a single sign of disturbance while I was gone; in fact, it was a great disappointment to me, for I know that a spicy adventure is needed, just now, to relieve the monotony of these chapters.