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92 alarmed, tacked to their friend's aitance, and cruelly tabbed his adveary, who fell a breathles corpe beneath their murderous weapons. 'he other Seapoy made off through the country, but I was dimounted from my hore, which was obliged to leave behind, and having plunged into the Ganges, on whoe verge. I tood trembling for my fate, with the utmot difficulty I gained the oppoite hore, fainting under the fatigue of my exertions in croing the wide river, with my clothes, and uch a weight of gold about me. A few of the peaantry, who beheld me thus truggling for life, ran to my aitance, and after upporting me to the next cottage, kindly minitered what relief was