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By Sheer Pluck

CHAPTER XX: THE WHITE TROOPS
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So most of them were brought down to the landing place, and there with great difficulty again thrown down, tied, and carried bodily on board.

Some of them were so unmanageable that they had to be carried all the way down to the landing place.

If English cattle possessed the strength and obstinate fury of these little animals, Copenhagen Fields would have to be removed farther from London, or the entrance swept by machine guns, for a charge of the cattle would clear the streets of London.
After spending an amusing day on shore, the party returned on board ship.

Captain Glover's expedition, although composed of only seven or eight English officers and costing the country comparatively nothing, accomplished great things, but its doings were almost ignored by England.

Crossing the river they completely defeated the native tribes there, who were in alliance with the Ashantis, after some hard fighting, and thus prevented an invasion of our territory on that side.


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