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body, when they perfumed it, when they carried it out to be in- 

 terred, at making the inventory, and when they divided the effects. 

 You are not to suppose the people that were ready to split their 

 sides with crying out, wept as much; the greatest part of them 

 did not shed a single tear through the whole tragedy." 



Never was there a picture more truly drawn of the scene I daily 

 witnessed in the precincts of the cemetery near our garden-house. 



A person of consequence in Guzerat, well informed of the 

 Gracias' intentions, told me, that although in the first onset they 

 killed and wounded so many of my people, they had resolved not 

 to destroy me at that time, but to carry me alive to one of their 

 fortresses in the distant hills, where I should indeed have been fed 

 with the bread of adversity, and have drank the water of affliction. 

 No friend would have known where I was, nor how to have ob- 

 tained redress; the English had no longer any influence, and the 

 Gracia chieftains acknowledge no superior. Their inaccessible 

 castles upon the mountains baffle the tactics of civilized nations, 

 and bid defiance to their experienced generals. Shakespeare's 

 creative imagination could alone have depicted my melancholy 

 situation. 



" where all things had been savage ; 



1 ' Where I should ne'er have look'd on better days ; 

 " Nor have with holy bell been knoll'd to church ; 

 " Nor sat at good men's feasts ; nor wip'd my eyes 

 " Of drops that sacred Pity had engender'd. 



" But in a fortress inaccessible, 



" Amid the dungeon's melancholy gloom, 



•" I should have lost the creeping hours of time ; 



" .Nor known what 'twas to pity, or be pitied !" 



