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316 own supply became exhausted. With criminal selfishness he refused to others the success in which he could not share. The insurgents pursued their way unmolested to Acuicho, while Trujillo, bewildered with astonishment, in the exuberance of his joy, was so far forgetful of himself as to liberate more than 300 prisoners from the jails and dungeons of the city.