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

 any thing that pailed around me. 



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

 from the lhore, came down in crowds to plunder the veiTel. 

 One of the boats was thrown afhore, 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 perifhfd in the boat. What nrlt wakened me from 

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

 lance, fhod 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 fmali, thort waiftcoat, which had been made at Al- 

 giers, the fafh and drawers, all in the Turkiih fafhion, made 

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

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

 and left me naked. They ufed the reft in the fame manner 3 

 then went to their boats tolook 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 poflible. 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 baflinado 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— 



