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Rh the bandage having slipped, the orifice was  opened, and a great flux of blood issued.

immediately accounted for the condition I myself in. I thought, however, I would disturb the family, which I knew had gone to  very late. I, therefore, mustered all my, and got up with my night-gown loose me, to go to a neighbouring barber who had ed me, in order to have the blood stopt and the  placed. He lived directly opposite to our ; but when I was crossing the way, in order knock at his door, a band of men, armed with  and hangers, came down the town, and  me, hurried me towards the beach. I and prayed; but they soon silenced my cries. first I took them for a press-gang, though I found they were a gang of ruffians,  to a privateer, aboard of which they  took me. However, before I got, the loss of blood occasioned me to faint. The surgeon of the ship, I suppose, tied my arm; for, when my senses returned, I  myself in a hammock, with somebody  my pulse. I asked where I was? They said I safe enough. I immediately called for my -gown; it was brought me; but of a very sum of money that was in the  of it I could get no account. I complained to captain of the violence that had been done me,  of the robbery his men had committed; but,  a brutish fellow, he laughed at my grief, and me, if I had lost any thing, I should soon prize-money enough to make me amends. In, not being able to help myself, I was  to submit: and, for three months, they  me to work before the mast. In the end,, we met with the same fate that you did. We