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11 rather than meet with certain death, by rejecting them; and, accordingly, went out of my with my gun in my hand, not knowing  I did, or that I had it. Immediately on approach, they rushed on me like so many ers, and instantly disarmed me. Having me in their power, the merciless villians bound  to a tree near the door; they then went into, and plundered and destroyed every , carrying off what moveables they could;  rest, together with the house, they set fire and consumed before my eyes. The barbarians not satisfied with this, set fire to my barn,, and out-houses, wherein were about 200 of wheat, six cows, four horses, and five , which were entirely consumed to ashes,  the eonflagrationconflagration [sic] to describe the thoughts,  fears, and misery that I felt, is utterly impossible, after this, they untied me, and gave me  great load to carry on my back, under which I  all that night with them, full of the  terrible apprehensions, and oppressed with  greatest anxiety of mind, lest my unhappy  should likewise have fallen a prey to those  monsters. At day-break, my infernal ordered me to lay down my load, when, tied my hands again round a tree with a small d, they then forced the blood out of my. They then kindled a fire near the