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 four Hours after we began our Journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous Accident; for the Carriage being topt a while to adjut omething that was out of order, two or three of the young Natives had the Curioity to ee how I looked when I was aleep; they climbed up into the Engine, and advancing very oftly to my Face, one of them, an Officer in the Guards, put the harp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left Notril, which tickled my Noe like a Straw, and made me neeze violently: Whereupon they tole off unperceived, and it was three Weeks before I knew the caue of my awaking o uddenly. We made a long March the remaining part of that Day, and reted at Night with five hundred Guards on each ide of me, half with Torches, and half With Bows and Arrows, ready to hoot me if I hould offer to tir. The next Morning at Sun-rie we continued our March, and arrived within two hundred yards of the