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A DIVING-BELL. 319 tremendous bound sprang on to the land. Instantly two natives rashed upon him. The giant clave their skulls with the butt end of his gun, and made off. Followed though he was by a storm of bullets, he escaped in safety, and disappeared beneath the cover of the woods. Dick Sands and the others were guarded to the shore, and fettered like slaves.