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jFcaitklm flcpoettaro and icrtpt (October 20 1859 however took advantage of the knowledge he THE INSURRECTION obtained by his former visit to earrv off all Further Particulars 'Vhe valuable collection of arms which Col himself He urged that he had the town at his mercy that he could have burnt it and murdered the inhabitants but did not He had treated the prisoners with courtesy and complained that he was hunted down like a Conductor Evan Dorsey of Baltimore was killed instantly and conductor Oeorge Rich ardson received a wound from which he died during the day Several others were wounded among them a son of Dr Hammond of Warner's Ferrtf (Jet The battle was The arms consisted of boxes filled with Sharp's rifles pistols etc bearing the stamp of the Massachusetts Manufacturing Company Chieopee Massachusetts There were tuund a quantity of ammunition a large number of spears sharp iron bowie knifes fixed upon poles a terrible looking weapon in- beast He spoke of the killing of his son which he alleged was done whilst bearing a flag of truce and seemed very anxious lor the safety of his wounded son His conversa tion bore the impress of a conviction that whatever he had done to free the slaves was "ot re-obtain till after the final defeat of the insurrection From Col Washington's the party proceeded with him as a prisoner in his own carriage and twelve of his negroes in the wagon to the house of Mr AllsUdt another large farmer on the same road Mr Allstadt and his son a lad of sixteen years of age were taken prisoners and all the negroes within reach being forced to join Hie movement they returned to Harper's Ferry AH these movements seem to have been made without exciting theslightest alarm in the town nor did the detention of Capt Phelps' train at the upper end of the town attract! attention It vas not until the town thoroughly waked up and found the bridge right and that in the warfare in which he was engaged he was entitled to be treated with all respect as a prisoner of war He seemed fully convinced thit he was badly treated and had a right to complain Al-thnuirh at first considered a dyintr examina sides and the fourth has large doors with window sashes above some eight feet above the ground A dead stillness surrounded the buildings and except that now and then a man might be seen peeping from the nearly closed centre door and a dog's nose slightly protruding no sign of life much less of hostility was given Various opinions were given as to the number of persons withi aud the amount of resistance they would be ab to offer Cannon could not be used without endangering the safety of Col Washington Mr Dangerfield Mr Ball and ether citizens whom they still held as prisoners The doors and walls of the building had been pierced for rifles but it was evident that from these holes no range could be had and that without opening the door they would be shooting in the door they would be shooting in the dark The murder of the prisoners held was thought by many to bo determined upon and then a fight to the death as an ending of their desperate attempt Whilst the people thus looked and speculated the door was thrown open and one cf the men came out with a flag of truce and delivered what was supposed to be terms of capitulation The continuance of the preparations for assault showed that they were not accepted DEMAND FOR ATTACK AND CAPTURE Shortly after seven o'clock Lieut Stuart of the First Cavalry who was acting as aid for Col Lee advanced to parley with the besieged Samuel Strider Esq an old fouglat mainly by the railroad tonnage men from Martirisburg led by Captain Evan Dorsey conductor was killed and conductors Bowman aud Hollett wounded No damage was done the railroad or bridge It is thought that the rioters will be hung as soon as they are captured in the morning FATE OF THE INSURRECTIONISTS Warper's Ferry Oct 18 Noon Soon after tin- storming of the Armory four dead bodies of insurgents shot yesterday were found within the enclosure Capt Brown and his son were dangerously wounded Only two of the insurrectionists are unwuunded Theis names are Edwin Coppich a white man from Iowa and Shields Green colored from Iowa The party originally consisted of twenty-two persons of whom fifteen are killed two mortally wounded two are here unhurt and three went oif with slaves on Monday morning There are probably one thousand armed men here They have been pouring in all night from all parts of the surrounding country TIFG INSURRECTIONISTS ALU KILLED OR ARRESTED iVo damage to the Railroad Property The President of the Baltimore aud Ohio 'or the use of the negroes with spades pick-axes shovels and everything that might be needed thus proving that the expedition was well provided to meet all expenses How all these supplies were got up to this farm without attracting observation strange hey are supposed to have been brought through Pennsylvania The Greys pursued Cook so fast that they secured part of his arms but with his more perfect knowledge of localities he was enabled to avade them On the arrival at the Ferry with their spoil they were greeted with heavy cheers The wagons were given into the custody of the Government As everybody else helped themselves why should not the Greys have a claim to the spoils? The insurrectionists did not attempt to rob the paymaster's department at the armory A large amount of money was there but it was not disturded Perfect order having been restored the military with the exception of the ma guarded by armed men and a guard stationed at all the avenues that the people found they were prisoners A panic appears to have immediately ensued aud the number of the insurrectionists at once increased from in which was probably their greatest force in tion his wounds have proved lobe not necessarily fatal He expressed a desire to live and be tried by his country In his pockets were nearly $300 in gold and several important papers found in his possession were taken charge of by Colonel Lee on behalf of the government The following fragment of a letter was also found in Brown's pocket It occupies a page of fine note paper straw tinted and it is written in pencil evidently by a person of education It is without date The freight alluded to was doubtless of that sort usually carried on the "Underground Railroad:" Capt Brown Dear Sir I have been cluding the slaves who worn f-t them to from 500 to tiOO A guerilla warfare was maintained during the rest of the day resulting in killing two Insurrectionists and the wounding of a third One crawled out through the culvert leading into the Potomac and attempted to cross to the Maryland side whether to escape or to convey information to Cook is not known He was shot while crossing the river and fell dead on the rocks An adventurous lad waded out and secured his Sharp's rifle and his body was afterwards stripped of a portion of its clothing In one of his pockets was found a captain's commission drawn up in full lorm and declaring that the bearer Capt Lehman held that command under Major Gen Brown A light mulatto was shot just outside the armory gate The ball went through his throat tearing away all the great arteries and killing him instantly His name is not known but he was one of the free negroes who came with Brown His body was left exposed in the street opto noon yesterday to every indignity that could be heaped upon it by the excited populace At this time a tall powerful man named Evan Stephens came out from the Armory conducting some prisoners it was said and was shot twice in the side and breast He was captured and taken to a tavern and alter the insurrection was quelled was turned over to the authorities in a dying condition During the afternoon a sharp little affaii look place on the Shenandoah side of the town The Insurrectionists had also seized Hall's rifle works and a party of their assailants found their way in through the mill race and dislodged them In this recontre it was said three ot the Insurrectionists were killed but we found but one dead body (that of a negro) ou that side of the town Night by this time had set in and the operations ceased In the meantime a number of workmen knowing nothing of what had occurred enter ed the armory aud were Ktipmaaivol prisoners until they had at one time not less than sixty men confined in the armory Among those thus entrapped were Armistead Ball the chief draftsman of the armory Benjamin Mills master of the armory and and respectable citizen bearing a flaf of truce They were received at the door bv Japt Brown Lieut Stuart demanded an unconditional surrender only promising them 'rom protection violence and a trial by law Capt Brown refused all terms but those pre viously demanded which were substantially hat they should be permitted to march out with their men and arms taking their prisoners with them that they' should proceed un-pursued to the second toll gate when they would free their prisoners The soldiers would then be permitted to pursue them and they would light if they could not escape Of course this was refused and Lieut Stir art pressed upon Brown his desperate position ihd urged a surrender The expostulation hough beyond ear shot was evidently very earnest and the coolness of the lieutenant md the courage of his aged flag-bearer won varm praise At this moment the interest of the scene vas most intense The volunteers were arranged all around the buildings cutting off in every direction The marines divided into two squads were ready for a dash at the loor Finally Lieut Stuart having exhausted all argument with the determined Captain Brown walked slowly from the door Imme diately the signal for attack was given and the marines headed by Col Harris and Lieut Green advanced in two lines on each side of the door Two powerful fellows sprung be tween the lines and with heavy sledge hammers attempted to batter down the doors Railroadjtelegraphed to New York that the insurrection is entirely suppressed All the outlaws are killed or arrested I XTERESTI NO DETAILS Captain Brown and his Recent Movements The Other leaders Commencement of the Inxnrmctwn Departure of Cook for Penn-SglvaMu Baltimore Oct The following interesting narrative of the recent events at Harper's Ferry is gleaned from the report of the editor of the American who accompanied the troops from this city and returned this evening The-principal originator of the short but bloody existence of this insurrection was undoubtedly Cant John Brown whose connection with the scenes of violence in the border warefare of Kansas then made his name notorious to the whole country Brown made his appearance in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry more than a year ago accompanied by his two sons the whole parly assuming the name of Smith He inquired about land in the vicinity and made investigations about the probability of rinding ores aud for some time boarde I at Sandy Point a mile east of the Ferry After an absence of some months he reappeared in the vicinity and the elder Brown rented or leased a farm on the Maryland side about four miles from the Ferry They bought a largo number of picks and spades aud this confirmed tke belief that they intended to mine for ores They were seen frequently in aud about Harper's Ferry but no suspicion seems to have existed that Bill Smi'h was Capt Brown or that he intended embarking in any movement so desperate or extraordinary Yet the development of the plot leaves no doubt that his visits to the Ferry and his lease of the farm were all parts of his preperalion for the insurrection which he supposed would be successful in exterminating slavery in Maryland and Western Virginia Brown's chief aid was John Cook a comparatively young man who had resided in and near the Ferry lor some years He was first employed in tending a lock on the canal afterwards taught school on the Maryland side of the riveJ and after a brief residence in Kansas where it is supposdd he became acquainted with Brown returned to the Ferry Mid married there He was regarded as a man of some intelligence known to be anti-slavery but not so violent in the expression of his opinions as to excite any suspicions These two men with Brown's two sons were the only white men connected with the insurrection that had been previously about the Ferry All were brought by Brown from a distance and nearly all had been with him in Kansas The first active movement in the insurrection was made about half-past ten o'clock on Sunday night Wm Williamson the watchman on the Harper's Ferry bridge whilst walking across towards the Maryland side was siezed by a number or men who said that he was their prisoner and must come with them Herecbgmabd Brown and Cook among the men and knowing them he treated the matter as a joke but enforcing silence they conducted him! i the armory which he found already in their possession He was retained till after daylight and then discharged The wulch-man who was to relieve Williamson at midnight found the bridge lights all out and was The doors swung and swayed but appeared Guards were placed around the armory and every precaution taken to prevent escape ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIMORE MILI 'i'ARY At eleven o'clock on Monday night tin train with the Baltimore military and marines arrived at Sandy Hook where they waited foi the arrival of Colonel Lee who was deputized by the War Department to take command The Reporters pressed on leaving theii military allies behind They found th5 bridge in possession of the military and entered the besieged and beleaguered town without diffi-' culty the occasional report of a gun oi singing motion of Sharp's riHo ball warning that it was advisable to keep out of the range of the Armory Their first visit was to the bedside of Even Stephens a wounded prisoner They found him a large and exceedingly i athletic man a perfect Sampson in appear- I ance He was in a small room filled with ex-' cited and armed men who more than once threatened to shoot him while he was groaning i with pain but answering with composure and apparent willingness every question in relation to the fray in which he was engaged Hi said he was a native of Connecticut but had lately lived in Kansas where he knew Captain Brown He had also served in the Unileo Slates army The sole object of the attempt he said was tj give the negroes freedom and Browu had represented that as soon as they seized the armory the negroes would flock to them by thousands aud wold soon have force enough to accomplish their purpose one for which he would sacrifice his life Bat he thought Brown had been greatly deceived He said preparations had been made for some months for the movement but the whole force consisted of seventeen white men and five free negroes This statement was repeated without vari ation bv all the prisoners with whom we con- versed All agreed as to the number engaged I in the movement and as to its objects which some of them called the work of philanthropy Lewis Leary a negro who was shot at the rille mill stated before he died th it he enlisted to be secured with a rope the spring of which Dangerfield paymaster's clerk These three gentlemen were imprisoned in the engine house (which afterwards became the chief fortress of the insurgents) and were not released until alter the final assault The workmen were imprisoned in a large building further down the yard and were rescued by a brilliant Zouave dash made by the railroad company's men who came down from Mar tinsburg This was the condition of affairs at daylight about which time captain Cook with two white men accompanied by thirty slaves and taking with them Col Washington's large wagon went over the bridge and struck up the mountain on the road towards Pennsylvania It was then believed that the large wagon was used to convey away the Pay Masters safe containing $17000 government funds and also that it was filled with rifles taken out to supply other bands in the mountains who were to come down to Harper's Ferry in overwhelming force These suppositions both proved untrue as neither money or arms were disturbed The begginning of the fight and shooting prisoners as the day advanced and the news spreading around the people came into the ferry aud great demonstrations of resistence were made to the insurrectionists A general warfare commenced chieflv led on by a man named Chambers whose houe commanded the armory yard The colored man Hayward a railroad poller was shot early in the morning for refusing to join in the movement The next man shot was Joseph Barley a citizen of the ferry He was shot while standing in his own door About this time Samuel Young Esq was killed while coming into town on horseback The insurrectionists by this time finding a general disposition to resist them had nearly all withdrawn within the armorer's grounds leaving only a guard on the bridge About noon the Charlestown troops under command of Col Robert Baylor having crossed the river some distance up marched down on the Maryland side to the mouth of the bridgei filing a volley they made a gallant dash across the bridge clearing it of the insurrectionists who retreated rapidly down toward the armory In this movement one of the insurrectionists Wm Thompson was taken prisoner The Shepardstuwn troops next arrived marching down the Shenandoah side and joining the Charlestowu forces at the bridge A desultory exchange of shots followed one of which struck Mr Fountain Beckham Mav-or of the town and agent of the railroad company in the breast passing entirely through his body The ball was a large elongated slug making a dreadful wound He died almost immediately Beckham was without arms and was exposed only for a moment whilst approaching the water station His a sailant one of Brown's sons was shot almost immediately but managed to get back into tin engine house where his dead body was found to-day The murder of Mr Beckham excited the populace and a cry was immediately made to bring out the prisoner Thompson He was brought out on the bridge and shot down from the bridge He fell into the water and some appearance of life still remaing be was again riddled with balls Sharp fighting ensued and at this time a general charge was made down the street from the bridge toward the Armory gate by the Charlestown and Shepherdstown troops (leadened the effect of the blows Failing thus to obtain a breach the marines rines who remained in charge of the prisoners left in various trains for their homes An immense train brought the Baltimore troops home accompanied by the Frederick troops to the junction with that freedom from accident or detention characteristic of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad THE FLIGHT OF THE SIGNS OF THEIR WHEREABOUTS Chamber sbury Pa Oct o'clock A There are no signs of the fugitives from Virginia A gentleman who left Greencastle at 9 o'clock last evening says nothing had been heard of them there Bedford Pa Oct 19-2 o'clock A There are no signs of the arrival of any of the fugitives from Virginia Frederick Oct 18 The excitement in regard to the insurrection still continues Nothing has been seen of the negroes in this section yet But they are supposed to be either in the mountains or on their wav to Pennsylvania through the range of mountains near Hagerstown WASHINGTON CITY ALARMED The Washington Star of last evening says When it became known that an anonymour letter had been received by the Secretary War some two months ago giving warning of an organized attack to be made simultaneously upon the armory works at Harper's Ferry Wheeling and Washington considerable apprehensions were felt by the and municipal authorities and measures ii stantly taken to the end of extinguishing an possible disturbance that might take place a this point Mayor Berret dispatched a requisition the Secretary of War who upon receipt then of issued an order for him to draw on the Arsenal for two hundred stand of arms am five thousand rounds of ball of buckshot ca-tridge The arms were received at the offic of Captain Goddard Chief of Police wher they were all loaded with catridge aud bayonets fixed The entire police force was on duty one half on parade and the other fifty under arms at the City Hall at a moment's warning Police mounted on horseback were stationed at every outlet of the city at thr bridges etc to give instant warning of any hostile demonstrations from outside the city They were instructed to signalize the first suspicious movement by a certain alarm that had been previously agreed upon at headquarters Capt Goddard also instructed th active police force to arrest all colored persons found on the street nnd search them for concealed weapons and in case of finding any to take the parlies to the watch-house and if no weapons were found to send such persons to their homes without delay As an evidence of the rigor with which order was carried out some watchman arrested a colored man afler 10 o'clock and proceeded to search him when he cried out "Bress God massa no use to search dig nigger I'fie been searched free times afore tonight" He was cautioned to make trackt-for home and released Permits to colored people to hold balls and festivals which had been previously issued were countermanded and the Mayor and all the police force as well as the clerks in the City Hall were cm the alert until daylight in the morning Numbers of citizens attended the Major's office and valunteered their services if necessary The night passed off however in a remarkably quiet manner Not the slightest thing occurred in any quarter to occasion apprehension About 3 o'clock in the morning the southern boat arrived at the warves having on board Gov Wise of Va and a company of sixty soldiers en route for the scene of the insurrection On his arrival here Gov Wist proceeded to the City Hall where he was received by the Mayor and with whom he re- disappointed at not seeing you here ere this to take charge of your freight They have been here now for two weeks and as I have had to superintend the providing for them it has imposed on ie no small task besides and if not soon taken away some of them will go back to Missouri I wish to know definitely what you propose doing They cannot be kept here much longer without risk to themselves and if any of them conclude to go back to the State it will be a bad termination to your enterprise" (No signature THE PRISONERS Besides Capt Brown the prisoners taken are his son who is seriously wounded in the abdomen and is not likely to live Edward Coppuck who belonged to Iowa and a negro named Shields Green who came from Pittsburgh to join Brown The stories of these men arc precisely alike They agree as to the objects they proposed to accomplish and the number of persons en gaged in the movement Young Brown in answer to a question said there were parties in the north connected with the movement thus differing from his father on this point Coppuck the white prisoner is quite young and seems less shrewd than the others He said he did not wish to join the expedition and when asked gave a reply which showed the influence which Brown had over him He srud "Ah! you gentleman don't know Captain Browu when he calls for us we never think of refusing to come" Several slaves were found in the room with the insurrectionists but it is nut believed they were there willingly Indeed Brown's expectations as to the rushing to him were entirely disappointed None seem to have come to him willingly and in most cases were forced to desert their masters But one instance in which the slaves made a public appearance with arms in their hands is related A negro who had been sharply used by one of the town people when he found that he had a pike in his hand used his brief authority to arrest the citizen and have him taken to the armory THE CONDITION OF CAPT BROWN Harper's Ferry Oct 18 Even ng Captain Brown is not dead as it was anticipated he would be and it now appears that his wounds are not so serious as at first supposed and he may live for trial and execution TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS The citizens imprisoned by the insurrectionists all testily to their lenient treatment They were neither tied nor insulted and beyond the outrage of restricting their liberty were not ill used Captain Browu was always courteous to them and at all times assured them that they should not be injured He explained his purposes to them aud whilst he had the workmen in confinement made no abolition speech to them Col Washington speaks of him as a man of extraordinary nerve He never blanched during the assault though he admitted during the night that escape was impossible and would have to die When the door was broken down one of his men exclaimed "I sur renderl" The Captain immediately cried out "There's one surrenders give him quarter and at the same moment fired his rifle at the door Daring the previous night he spoke freely with Col Washington and referred to his soii6 He said that he had lost one in Kansas and two here He had not pressed them to join him in the expedition but did not regret their loss They had died in a glorious cause The position of the prisoners in the Engine house during the firing on Monday and at the moment of the final attack was a very trying one Without any of the necessities of combat they had to risk the balls of their friends but happily they all escaped at the moment when the doors were broken in were ordered to fall back and twenty of them took hold of a ladder some forty feet long and advancing at a run brought it with tremendous effect against the door At the sec ond blow one leaf falling inward in a slant ing position the marines immediately advanc ed to the breach Major Russell and Lieut Green leading A marine in front fell and the firing from the interior 1 was rapid and diarp They fired with deliberate aim and tor a moment the resistance was serious and lesperate enough to exeite the spectators to something like a pilch of frenzy The next moment the marines pourd in firing ceased and the work was done whilst cheers rang from every side the general feeling being that the marines had done their part ad mirably When the insurgents were brought out some dead and others wounded they were greeted with execrations aud only the precautious that had been taken saved them from immediate execution The crowd nearly every man of which carried a gun swayed with tumultuous excitement and cries of "shoot them shoot them" rang from every side The appearance of the liberated prison ers all of whom through the steadiness of the with Capt Brown for the insurrection at a fair held in Lorraine cjunty Ohio and received money to pay his expenses They all came down to Ohambersburg Pa and from there traveled across the country to Brown's farm HOW THE NIGHT PASSED marines escaped injury changed the current The night passed without serious alarms but not without excitement The marines I immediately sieed Supposing it an attempt at robbery he bruie away aud his pursueis stumbling over be escaped The next appearance of the insurrection ists was at the house of Col Lewis Washing feeling and prolonged cheers took the place of howls and execrations In the assault private Ruffert of the Marines received a ball in the shoulder and was believed to be fatally wounded Another received a slight flesh wound CAPT BROWN'S STATEMENT A short time alter he was brought out he revived and talked earnestly to those about him defending his course aud avowing that he had done only what was right He replied to the questions put to him substantially as follows Are you Capt Brown of Kansas?" "I am sometimes called so" Are you Ossawatomie Brown I tried to do my duty there" What was your present object To free the slaves from bondage" Were any other persons but those with vou now connected with the movement No" "Did you expect aid from the North No There was no one connected with the movement but those who came with me" Did you expect to kill people in order to carry your point I did not wish to do so but you forced us tD do it" Various questions of this kind were put to Captaiu Brown which he answered clearly and freely and seemed anxious to vindicate The prisoners at the suggestion of Col Wash marched over immediate after the arrival ol Col Lee aud were stationed in the Armor) grounds so as to completely surround the house Occasionally shots were fired by the country volunteers for what purpose was not understood as there was only one return fin from the insurgents The broken telegraph was soon repaired through the exertions of Superintendents Westervelt and Talcott who accompanied the expedition aud the announceme that communication was opened with Baltimore gave the press representatives abundant employment There was no bed to be had and daylight was awaited with anxiety Its earliest glimp-ies were availed of to survey the scene A visit to the different localities in which the corpses of the insurrectionists were lving stark and bloody a peep close or far according to the courage of the observer at the Malakoff or the insurgents was the estab lished order of sight-seeing varied with the discussion of all sorts of terrible rumprs THE FORT OF THE INSURGENTS The building in which the insurgents had made a stand was a fire engine house and no doubt the most defensible building in the armory It has dead brick walls on three- ington threw up their hands so that it might gained it conference until the time arrive-r ron i-mim tnw kaim house be seen that they were not combatants 4j mitt tut vi uaiu iui em He informed the Mayor that the company and the ferry people from behind the Armory wall A fusilade was kept up and returned by the insurrectionists from the Armory buildings Whilst this was going on the Mur-tinsburg levies arrived at the upper end of the town and entering the Armory grounds by the rear made an attack from that side This force was largely composed of railroad employees gathered from the tonnage trains at Martinsburg and their attack was generally spoken of as showing the greatest amount of fighting pluck exhibited during the day Dashing ou firing and cheering and gallantly led by Capt Alburtis they carried the building in which the Armory men were imprisoned aud released the whole of them They wore however but poorly armed some with pistols and others with shot guns and when they came within range of the engine house where the elite of the insurrectionists were gathered and became exposed to their rapid dexterous use of Saarp's rifles they were forced to fall back suffering pretty severelr ton a large farmer and slave owner living shout four miles from the Ferry A party-headed by Cook proceeded there roused Col and told him he was their prisoner They also seized all the slaves near the house aud took the carriage and horse and a large wagon with two horses When Col Washington saw Cook he immediately recognized him as man who had called upon him some months previous to whom he had exhibited some valuable arms in his possession including atique sword presented by Frederick the Great to George Washington and a pair of pistols presented by Gen Lafayette to Washington both being heir-looms in the family Before leaving Cook invited Col toa trial of skill at shooting and exhibited considerable certainty as a marksman When he made his visit" on Sunday night he alluded to his previous visit and the courtesy with which he had been treated and regretted the necessity which made it his duty to arrest Col He SEIZURE OF ARMS During Tuesday morning one of Col Washington's negroes came in and reported that Captain Cook was in the mountains only three miles off About the same time some shots were said to have been fired from the Maryland hills and a rapid fusilade was r9-turned from Harper's Ferry Th Independent Grays of Baltimore immediately started on a scouting expedition and in two hours returned with two wagons loaded with arms and ammunition found at Capt Brown's house with him were at the cars in full uniform am perfectly equipped in just forty-five minute from the time his orders were issued am and also that the afteruoon boat to-day wouh bring two hundred State soldies whom he hao ordered to follow him A mounted patrol was detailed from tl President's Mounted Guard which scour-the suburbs until about 2 o'clock this mon ing when 'hev were relieved from duty Additional precautions were taken by om missioner Blake and Capt Duunington 1.

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