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 found in myself a kind of tupidity, and want of power to reflect upon what had passed. I seemed to be, as if awakened from a dream when the senses are yet half asleep, and we only begin to doubt whether what has before passed in thoughts is real or not. The dangers that I was just now delivered from made no impression upon my mind, and what more and more convinces me I was for a time not in my perfect senses, is, that I found in myself a hard-heartedness, without the least inclination to be thankful for that signal deliverance which I had just now experienced.

this tupor I was awakened by the arrival of the oldier, who cried out to us at some ditance, "You must come to the Aga to the castle, all of you, as fat as you can, the Turk is gone before you." "It will not be very fat, if we even should do that, aid I; the Turk has ridden two days on a camel, and I have walked on foot, and do not know at preent if I can walk at all." I endeavoured, at the same time, to rise and stand upright, which I did not ucceed in, after several attempts, without great pain and difficulty. I observed the soldier was in a prodigious astonishment at my appearance, habit, and above all, at my ditress. "We hall get people in town, says he, to assist you, and if you cannot walk, the Aga will end you a mule."

and the Greeks were cloathed much in the ame manner; Imael and Michael had in their hands two monstrous blunderbues. The whole town crowded after us while we walked to the castle, and could not satiate themselves with admiring a company of such an extraordinary appearance. The Aga was truck dumb upon our entering