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Glanton takes him up.
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He rides with them, and he takes them to a volcanic cone,
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a dead cone, and there he instructs them how to make gunpowder.
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He takes brimstone from the rim of the cone,
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he mixes it with charcoal and other things,
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and then he has them piss on it.
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And from this he makes gunpowder,
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and they use that gunpowder to defeat the Indians who come after them.
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Well, this is taken directly from Paradise Lost.
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Satan instructs his fiends in how to make gunpowder,
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and I'm going to read you a little bit from Book 6 of Paradise Lost.
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So, the fiends are down in Hell strategizing, somewhat in despair