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alarmed, ſtacked to their friend's aſſiſtance, and cruelly ſtabbed his adveſary, who fell a breathleſs corpſe beneath their murderous weapons. 'he other Seapoy made off through the country, but I was diſmounted from my horſe, which was obliged to leave behind, and having plunged into the Ganges, on whoſe verge. I ſtood trembling for my fate, with the utmoſt difficulty I gained the oppoſite ſhore, fainting under the fatigue of my exertions in croſſing the wide river, with my clothes, and ſuch a weight of gold about me. A few of the peaſantry, who beheld me thus ſtruggling for life, ran to my aſſiſtance, and after ſupporting me to the next cottage, kindly miniſtered what relief
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