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12 when I was asleep; they climbed up into the Engine, and advancing very softly to my Face, One of them, an Officer in the Guards, put the sharp end of his Half-pike a good way up into my Left nostril, which tickled my Nose like a Straw, and made me sneeze violently: whereupon they stole off unper-



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ceived, and it was Three weeks before I knew the cause of my awaking so suddenly. We made a long March the remaining part of that day, and rested at night with Five hundred Guards on each side of me, half with Torches, and half with Bows and Arrows, ready to shoot me if I should offer to stir. The next morning at Sun-rise we continued our march, and arrived