2a6 TRAVELS IN 
ficlent coolnefs to guard, as far as I was aWe^ 
againft the worft misfortune; and making with 
my arms and legs under the tilt, in which I 
faw myfelf buried, fo many props to prevent • 
contufions on the head, I waited with firra- 
nefs till the carriage fhould flop, as I found 
it impoffible to difmount. This fituation was 
extremely painful, but I continued in it only 
a few minutes. To roll thus without know- 
ing where ; to be fhaken about amidft the 
^darknefs of a clofe carnage ; abandoned by my 
people for a confiderable fpace^ and having no 
choice but that of being drowned or daflied 
in pieces, was certainly enough to have fhaken 
the mxoft heroic courage. 
My people, alarmed, both for themfelves and 
me, at the confequences of fo melancholy an 
accident, ran as faft as they could to affift me : 
but as they were unable to keep pace with the 
carriage, and as the darknefs of the night pre- 
vented them from feeing, in a road feldom 
trodden, the marks either of the oxen or the 
wheels ; I heard them calling to me aloud, and 
talking to one another as if they had been dif- 
perfed. I replied and called to them in my 
turn ; but whether through fear on their own 
account, 
