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pofe I fainted, for from that time I was totally infenftble of 

 any thing that palTed around me. 



In the mean time the Arabs, who live two fliort miles 

 from the more, came down in crowds to plunder the veflel. 

 One of the boats was thrown afliore, and they had belonging 

 to them fome others ; there was one yet with the wreck 

 which fcarcely appeared with its gunnel above water. All 

 the people were now taken on more, and thofe only loft 

 who perimed in the boat. What firft wakened me from 

 this femblance of death was a blow with the butt-end of a 

 lance, mod with iron, upon the juncture of the neck with 

 the back- bone. This produced a violent fenfation of pain ; 

 but it was a mere accident the blow was not with the point, 

 for the fmall, fhort waiftcoat, which had been made at Al- 

 giers, the fafli and drawers, all in the Turkifh fafhion, made 

 the Arabs believe that I was a Turk ; and after many blows, 

 kicks, and curfes, they ftript me of the little cloathing I had, 

 and left me naked. They ufed the reft in the fame manner, .. 

 then went to their boats to look for the bodies of thofe that 

 were drowned. 



After the difcipline I had received, I had walked, or 

 crawled up among fome white, fandy hillocks, where I fat 

 down and concealed myfelf as much as poffible. The wea- 

 ther was then warm, but the evening promifed to be cooler^ 

 and it was fail drawing on; there was great danger to be ap- 

 prehended if I approached the tents where the women were 

 while I was naked, for in this cafe it was very probable I 

 would receive another baftinado fomething worfe than the 

 firft. Still I was fo confufed that I had not recollected I 

 could fpeak to them in their own language, and it now on- 

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