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and then dispersing a portion of my enemies. "Fly, sir!" said my liberator; "now that I am here, no one will touch a hair of your head." In fact the crowd divided, and left me a free passage. I was saved, without knowing by whom, or for what reason, until the native soldier called after me: "You attended my wife who was sick, and you never asked payment of me. I now settle my debt." As Captain Drouant had doubtless gone off in the cutter, it was impossible for me to return on board the Cultivateur. I directed my steps towards my lodgings, creeping along the walls, and taking advantage of the obscurity, when, on turning the corner of a street, I fell into the midst of a band of dockyard workmen, armed with axes, and about to proceed to the attack of the French vessels then in harbour. Here again I owed my preservation to an acquaintance, to whom I had rendered some service in the practice of my profession. A Metis, or half-breed, who had quickly pushed me into the entry of a house, and covered me with his body, said: "Stir not, Doctor Pablo!" [1] When the crowd had dispersed, my protector advised me to conceal myself, and, above all, not to go on board; he then started off to rejoin his comrades. But all was not yet over. I had scarcely entered my lodgings when I heard a knocking at the door. "Doctor Pablo," said a voice, which was not unknown to me. I opened, and I saw, as pale as death, a Chinese, who kept a tea-store on the ground-floor of the same house. "What's the matter, Yang-Po?" "Save yourself, Doctor!" "And wherefore?" "Because the Indians will attack you this very night; they have decided upon it!" "Is it not your apprehension on account of your shop, Yang-Po?" "Oh, no! do not treat this matter lightly. If you remain here you are doomed; you have struck an Indian, and his friends cry aloud for vengeance." The fears of Yang-Po were, I saw, too well-founded; but what could I do? To shut my door and await was the safest plan. "Thank you," said I to the Chinese; "thank you for your kind advice, but I shall remain here." "Remain here, Signor Doctor! Can you think of so doing?" "Now, Yang-Po, a service: go and say to these Indians that I have, at their service, a brace of pistols and a double-barreled gun, which I know how to use." The Chinese departed sighing deeply, from a notion that the attack upon the Doctor might end in the pillage of his wares. I barricaded my door with the f
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