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left Arm to the Ground; for, by lifting it up to my Face, I diſcover'd the Methods they had taken to bind me, and, at the ſame time, with a violent pull, which gave me exceſſive Pain, I a little looſened the ſtrings that tied down my Hair on the left fide, ſo that I was juſt able to turn my Head about two inches. But the Creatures ran off a ſecond time, before I could ſeize them; whereupon there was a great Shout in a very ſhrill Accent, and after it ceaſed, I heard one of them cry aloud, Tolgo Phonac; when in an inſtant I felt above an hundred Arrows diſcharged on my left Hand, which pricked me like ſo many needles; and beſides they ſhot another Flight into the Air, as we do Bombs in Europe, whereof many, I ſuppoſe, fell on my Body, (though I felt them not) and ſome on my Face, which I immediately covered with my left Hand. When this ſhower of Arrows was over, I fell a groaning with Grief and Pain, and then ſtriving again to get looſe, they diſcharged an-other