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 vessel, that some of them would give a clue to our late abode, and be the means of causing a strict search, she was desired to destroy every thing that could lead to discovery, or suspicion; then taking all the bread in the house, and leaving Mansell there, the rest immediately set out for Windmill Wood, on the other side of Bruges, where we arrived a little before day-light. It had been previously agreed, that Mansell should go in disguise, as a girl, to Moitier, and detail the whole truth, for he was still ignorant of there being four of us. Mansell was to procure a pair of shoes for each, some provisions, as much cash as he could raise, and, in his girl's dress, bring these articles out to us; should he succeed in this, our intention was to quit Flanders, and walk through France, and Germany, to Trieste, in the gulph of Venice; for, having previously learnt that the entire coast of Holland was guarded with as great strictness as that of Flanders, we had abandoned the idea of penetrating into that country.

Although, before this catastrophe it was