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CHAPTER III

THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST

HAVE UNDERGONE A

CERTAIN PREPARATORY

MANIPULATION TO BE

THUS BROKEN WITH A

BLOW FROM A HAMMER

Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the
inhabitants of Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after
heavy weather, and for the purpose of repairing some dam-
ages, of the ship Orion, which was employed later at Brest as
a school-ship, and which then formed a part of the Mediter-
ranean squadron.
This vessel, battered as it was,—for the sea had handled
it roughly,— produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It
flew some colors which procured for it the regulation salute
of eleven guns, which it returned, shot for shot; total, twen-

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