God _ TRAVELS TO DISCOVER | 
found in myfelf a kind of ftupidity, and want of power to. 
reflect upon what had paffed. I feemed to be, as if awaken- 
- ed from a dream when the fenfes are yet half afleep,. 
and we only begin to doubt whether what has- before 
paffed in thoughts is real or not. The dangers that I was 
juft now delivered from made no impreffion upon my mind, 
and what more and more convinces me I was foratime 
not in my perfect fenfes, is, that I found in myfelf a hard- 
heartednefs, without the leaft inclination to be thankful 
for that fignal deliverance which I had juft now expe~ — 
rienced. 7 
From this ftupor I was awakened by the arrival of the fol- 
dier, who cried out to us at fome diftance, “ You muft come: 
to the Aga to the caftle, all of you, as faft as you can, the: 
Turk is gone before you.” “ It will not be very faft, if we 
even fhould do that, faid 1; the Turk has ridden two days om 
a camel, and I have walked on foot, and’ do not know at pre= 
fent if I can walk at all.” I endeavoured, at the fame time, 
to rife and ftand upright, which I did not fucceed in, after 
feveral attempts, without great pain and difficulty. Tobfer- — 
ved the foldier was in a prodigious aftonifhment at my ap- 
pearance, habit, and above all, at my diftrefs. +. We fhalk 
get people in town, fays he, to aflift you, and if you. cannot: 
walk, the Aga will fend you a mule.” ‘ 
Tue Turk and the Greeks were cloathed much in the ~ 
fame manner; Ifmael and Michael had in their hands two 
monfltrous bliunderbuffes. The whole town crowded after 
-us while we walked to the caftle, and could not fatiate 
themielves with admiring a company of fuch an extraordi- 
nary appearance. The Aga was ftruck dumb upon our 
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