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6 they had taken to bind me; and, at the same time, with a violent Pull, which gave me excessive pain, I a littlealittle [sic] loosened the Strings that tied down my Hair on the Left side, so that I was just able to turn my Head about Two inches. But the Creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great Shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased, I heard one of them cry aloud, Tolgo Phonac; when in an instant I felt above an Hundred Arrows discharged on my Left hand, which pricked me like so many Needles; and besides they shot another Flight into the Air, as we do Bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my Body (though I felt them not) and some on my Face, which I immediately covered with my Left hand. When this shower of Arrows was over, I fell a groaning with Grief and Pain, and then striving again to get loose, they discharged another VollyVolley [sic] larger than the first, and some of them attempted with Spears to stick me in the Sides; but, by good luck, I had on me a Buff Jerkin, which they could not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when my Left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: And as for the Inhabitants, I had reason to believe I might be a match for the greatest Armies they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw. But Fortune disposed otherwise of me. When the People observed I was quiet, they discharged no more Arrows: But by the Noise I heard, I knew their numbers encreasedincreased [sic]; and about Four yards from me, over-against my Right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the Pegs and Strings would permit me, I saw a Stage erected about a Foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding Four of the Inhabitants, with two or three Ladders to mount it: From whence one of them, who seemed to be a Person of Quality, made me a long Speech, whereof I understood not one Syllable. But I should have mentioned, that before the Principal person began his oration, he cryedcried [sic] out Three times Langro Dehul san: (these words and the former were